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[in-flekt] / ɪnˈflɛkt /






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“The signal markets latched onto today is that optical content per AI rack is about to inflect higher,” Baptista analyst Ishan Majumdar said, referring to optical components in data-center racks.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

Under the direction of Sarah Frankcom, the actors inflect the dialogue with welcome variety, although the overall tone remains firmly dispassionate and emotionally colorless, as befits the dialogue’s cool tone.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 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

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

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

“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

Leichter’s deeper interest is in mining how transient, insecure work inflects our private life — if it even permits a private life.

From New York Times Feb. 25, 2020

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

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

Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.

From Slate Mar. 20, 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

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

“The company says it is seeing margins inflecting, demand strengthening and increased diversification of its customer base.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 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




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