inflect
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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.
As historian Anthea Butler has argued, “racism inflected almost every point of evangelicalism along the way.”
From Salon
He inflects Hamlet’s glorious speeches with modern color but little meaning.
From Los Angeles Times
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