Example Sentences

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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

So far, the 2020’s have been something of a golden era for tropically inflected pop.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

The latter thought, inflected with both promise and peril, should concern us all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee