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It had previously forecast adjusted earnings would fall by low-single digits or inflect slightly positive compared with $5.31 a share a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

The latter thought, inflected with both promise and peril, should concern us all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

With unerring but inflecting fidelity, we filled, and mixed, and stirred, and watched, the fatal caldron.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various