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In his view, sales and earnings growth rates for both categories will inflect positively on the back of Gap’s initiatives to turn several struggling businesses around.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

The analysts said that at Sweetgreen, they expect that “store traffic will take time to inflect positively as macro pressures are likely to persist and consumer spending remains depressed, particularly among younger consumers.”

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026

“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

I have before shown, that several of the "best ancient writers" did not inflect the verb were, but wrote "thou were;" and, surely, "the analogy of formation," requires that the subjunctive be not inflected.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

Looking at it, one wonders: Is this sculpture distinctive because volcanoes in central Java are spiritual sites, so molten material thrown up from deep within the earth inflects the art’s intended meaning?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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

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

The subject must be put into the case of the agent, and the participle inflects to agree with the object.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

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

I think those things are part of it, but they are inflected naturally.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024

Our place and our rights in this new world of artificial neural networks lie beyond certainty, inflected with the unknowable.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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

“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

“Aggregate hyperscaler cloud revenues are inflecting in 2025 and are expected to continue accelerating in 2026 driven by enterprise AI adoption,” Malik said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 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

For the rays are repelled by bodies, in both these cases, without the immediate contact of the reflecting or inflecting body.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin