inflect
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But his new target price starts to value Tesla on earnings potential in 2030 and beyond, which is when he thinks revenue and margin performance will inflect higher following the current period of hefty spending.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
Bias: Value-oriented “accumulate” for patient investors; build positions gradually and be prepared for extended periods of underperformance until technicals and sentiment inflect.
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
“Not only at IBM, but the market overall, rebounded to inflect to growth,” Kavanaugh said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
If the two producers’ generally dissimilar sounds — Dessner leans pastoral, and Antonoff, synthetic — both inflect the record, it could be anything from folk to indie pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
Can you so inflect "sprawling in want" and "sitting high" as to suggest a swamp and a mountain-top, or a frog and an angel?
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
Jefferies analyst Samad Samana expects that investors will return to application-software names “when growth inflects alongside AI revenues,” he wrote in a Sunday note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
“It’s the absence of God that inflects this great moral responsibility on us,” she told the New Yorker.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
All of this context inflects the piece itself, in which wild brass blasts and drums set the scene — then, cutting through a rising haze of strings, comes Janai Brugger’s mighty soprano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2020
Later, Shelby is again confronted by Beebe, whose mealy-mouthed bureaucratic jargon and weaselly chicanery inflects the entire drama.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019
An accidental is operative during the bar in which it occurs, and no further, unless it inflects the last note of a bar, and the next bar begins with the same note.
From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Clement A. Harris
Pogacar may be a dominant athlete with an offbeat, silly side—look at his Bee Gees inflected “Stayin’ Alive” social-media post from his hospital bed—he’s as vulnerable as anyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
As a result, Western Digital’s free-cash-flow yield inflected positive at the end of 2024 and has increased ever since.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025
I think those things are part of it, but they are inflected naturally.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024
Jacob’s was inflected with the rhythms of the Hebrew Bible and the beit midrash where the men of his village studied and argued.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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“The company says it is seeing margins inflecting, demand strengthening and increased diversification of its customer base.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“We continue to aim to deepen our lead in all of them. And all of them feel like they’re inflecting at the same time, which is great.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
“We expect the investor debate to remain very sensitive to inflecting top-line momentum.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
“While economic uncertainty remains, we believe the profit cycle is inflecting higher,” the strategists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Think," resumed the governess, inflecting her tones eloquently, "of the fortune he spends on your dresses, and your pony, and your beautiful car!
From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates
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