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inflects

  • present tense form of inflect (3rd person singular).

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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

The inclusion of a trio of sculptures from earlier in Kaino’s steadily developing career is likewise suggestive of the ways in which evolving personal history inflects an artistic narrative.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 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

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

And so she dramatizes and inflects it, trying to make the point visible to her apparent also to her hearers.

From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.