inflection

Shapiro’s cadence, inflection, and conspicuous use of the pregnant pause have long invited comparisons to Obama’s speaking style, not all of them positive.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

“The idea that you are going to use open models…for your own proprietary intelligence, and optimize it for your particular content has resonated with a lot of folks. I believe there’s an inflection point here.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

On the whole, this looks to be a positive inflection point in our political leadership, empowering a new generation of leaders advocating needed changes in the government’s relationship with its constituents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The market focuses on inflection points, on when things stop getting better and start getting worse.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Both an author and a grad student at Columbia now, I affected an outerborough inflection at readings and in interviews that had become thick enough to require subtitles.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“With valuations having almost doubled off the bottoms post Q1, and on-cycle names unlikely to show material inflections, we lean more cautious heading into the on-cycle prints,” the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Born to parents who moved to New York from the US Virgin Islands, Rollins incorporated some of the inflections of his heritage into his jazz.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Aside from speaking in a period-appropriate tone with the right inflections, Cage infused his performance with a certain cheekiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

On Karma, that includes everything from the Brazilian funk rhythms of Ceremony, to pop-punk inflections of In My Head, which riffs on the sounds of Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray