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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

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

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

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

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

The inclusion of a trio of sculptures from earlier in Kaino’s steadily developing career is likewise suggestive of the ways in which evolving personal history inflects an artistic narrative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

“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

These days, a smiling, everyone-together spirit inflects the appreciative albums and Lincoln Center celebrations; Tynan’s “et al.” covers a lot of talents, big and small.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 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

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

I think those things are part of it, but they are inflected naturally.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024

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

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

“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

Like Materne, Gallo said in a Sunday note that he expects identity-security vendors to be among the first beneficiaries of inflecting agentic security efforts given “visibly healthy demand” and growing adoption of AI agents.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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

“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

She touched a bell as she said in an odd manner of inflecting, 'But you are late!'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe