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
“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
All of this context inflects the piece itself, in which wild brass blasts and drums set the scene — then, cutting through a rising haze of strings, comes Janai Brugger’s mighty soprano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2020
These days, a smiling, everyone-together spirit inflects the appreciative albums and Lincoln Center celebrations; Tynan’s “et al.” covers a lot of talents, big and small.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
The subject must be put into the case of the agent, and the participle inflects to agree with the object.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
