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That idea has inflected a lot of their jurisprudence on voting rights.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

This encounter has inflected my subsequent experience of listening to his songs and, after his poetry collection Actual Air came out in 1999, reading his words.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019

And that tension between these two very different views of what it means to be “elite” has inflected our history for over 400 years.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2012

We may liken it to a violent contraction which has inflected the primitive attitude of the human mind.

From The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various