inflect
Example Sentences
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"Markets understand this dynamic, and they also tend to inflect before the political endgame is formally in place."
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 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
“When you're talking about a group of people in Murrinhpatha, you have to inflect the verb according to whether the people are related as siblings or not.”
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
What confusion the practice must make in the language, especially when we come to inflect this part of the verb with st or est, has already been suggested.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
