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

Later, Shelby is again confronted by Beebe, whose mealy-mouthed bureaucratic jargon and weaselly chicanery inflects the entire drama.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2019

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