inflect

As historian Anthea Butler has argued, “racism inflected almost every point of evangelicalism along the way.”

He inflects Hamlet’s glorious speeches with modern color but little meaning.

That idea has inflected a lot of their jurisprudence on voting rights.

The sketch served as a showcase for Johnson's discursive and oddly inflected take on Trump, ranging from bits about Cheesecake Factory to the uninhabited islands that the Trump admin subjected to a 10% import tariff.

It’s a capitulation to the asymmetrical political polarization that inflects seemingly every aspect of American life.