inflect
verb (used with object)
to alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).
inflects
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present tense formof inflect (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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 Hamlet’s glorious speeches with modern color but little meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
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
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
