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inflect

[in-flekt] / ɪnˈflɛkt /






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He said revenue from consumers may inflect upward and become a larger part of the business going forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“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

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

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

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 Goold Brown

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 his songs with bits of Vermont attitude and lore, and has collaborated with Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 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

For hearing people, the degree to which race inflects sign can be hard to grasp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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

“The company says it is seeing margins inflecting, demand strengthening and increased diversification of its customer base.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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

“We expect the investor debate to remain very sensitive to inflecting top-line momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

“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

Think," resumed the governess, inflecting her tones eloquently, "of the fortune he spends on your dresses, and your pony, and your beautiful car!

From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates


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