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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

Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word Yes to call forth the injunction, Read it again?

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

He inflects his songs with bits of Vermont attitude and lore, and has collaborated with Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

The inclusion of a trio of sculptures from earlier in Kaino’s steadily developing career is likewise suggestive of the ways in which evolving personal history inflects an artistic narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

“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

And so she dramatizes and inflects it, trying to make the point visible to her apparent also to her hearers.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

Rosen: I did not have a simple relationship with Dean, so if the documentary is inflected emotionally with our personal experience, it wasn’t all positive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Frank, formerly a member of the pop duo Surfaces, has exploded in the past year by making Christian music that pairs hip-hop inflected beats with relentlessly sunny lyrics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 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

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’re definitely in a premium valuation territory,” Jefferies analyst Joseph Gallo says in an interview, adding that inflecting fundamentals could support upward estimate revisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Like Materne, Gallo said in a Sunday note that he expects identity-security vendors to be among the first beneficiaries of inflecting agentic security efforts given “visibly healthy demand” and growing adoption of AI agents.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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

“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