Example Sentences

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But after a decade of rapid growth, the success might be at an inflexion point.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

However, the fashion show will "definitely impact investors' perception of De Sarno's capacity to trigger an inflexion in Gucci's aesthetics," said Antoine Belge, analyst with Exane BNP Paribas.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2023

“The committee acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic may be approaching an inflexion point,” WHO said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2023

The dialect coach “worked very hard on my inflexion, but he worked just as hard with all the Brits. 1950s Royal Family English is very specific.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2016

She looked at me, then she spoke rapidly to the little girl in Italian, with a rising inflexion, then a pause, interrogatory.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner