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
U.S. gross gaming revenue was $72 billion in 2024, and the analysts think Robinhood can inflect higher than that given its demographic and distribution advantages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Cat shares, again, typically trade at a discount to the market, although the stock’s price-to-earnings ratio tends to be highest before its cyclical earnings inflect higher.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 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
"I don't like London, do you?" she asked, allowing a touch of wistfulness to inflect her voice.
From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John
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
But there’s no denying that his former alter ego Ben Covington inflects his current roles, especially on “Grey’s Anatomy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
“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
Leichter’s deeper interest is in mining how transient, insecure work inflects our private life — if it even permits a private life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
And so she dramatizes and inflects it, trying to make the point visible to her apparent also to her hearers.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
The carrier said Wednesday that demand inflected positively in early July and maintained momentum in the ensuing months, pushing total operating revenue up 1.1% to a third-quarter record of $6.95 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
That idea has inflected a lot of their jurisprudence on voting rights.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
Lennox, a Belfast native who previously worked on the Troubles-themed coming of age comedy “Derry Girls,” played an essential role in setting its tone which, though grim, is also inflected with dark humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
The latter thought, inflected with both promise and peril, should concern us all.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Now, Barclays spots signs of earnings momentum inflecting upwards.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 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
She touched a bell as she said in an odd manner of inflecting, 'But you are late!'
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
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