inflect
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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
Bias: Value-oriented “accumulate” for patient investors; build positions gradually and be prepared for extended periods of underperformance until technicals and sentiment inflect.
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
“Not only at IBM, but the market overall, rebounded to inflect to growth,” Kavanaugh said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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 don't like London, do you?" she asked, allowing a touch of wistfulness to inflect her voice.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
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
He inflects Hamlet’s glorious speeches with modern color but little meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
“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
And so she dramatizes and inflects it, trying to make the point visible to her apparent also to her hearers.
From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King
The carrier said Wednesday that demand inflected positively in early July and maintained momentum in the ensuing months, pushing total operating revenue up 1.1% to a third-quarter record of $6.95 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
That idea has inflected a lot of their jurisprudence on voting rights.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
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
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“We’re definitely in a premium valuation territory,” Jefferies analyst Joseph Gallo says in an interview, adding that inflecting fundamentals could support upward estimate revisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Now, Barclays spots signs of earnings momentum inflecting upwards.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
“We believe the -10 carries a strong pricing profile and will likely be critical for margins inflecting positive in 2027,” wrote RBC analyst Ken Herbert in a preview report.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
“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
For the Rays are repelled by Bodies in both these Cases, without the immediate Contact of the reflecting or inflecting Body.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
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