inflect
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Dr. Johnson, indeed, made the preterit subjunctive like the indicative; and this may have induced the author to change his plan, and inflect this part of the verb with st.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
