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[in-flekt] / ɪnˈflɛkt /






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He said revenue from consumers may inflect upward and become a larger part of the business going forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“The signal markets latched onto today is that optical content per AI rack is about to inflect higher,” Baptista analyst Ishan Majumdar said, referring to optical components in data-center racks.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

In his view, sales and earnings growth rates for both categories will inflect positively on the back of Gap’s initiatives to turn several struggling businesses around.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

If the two producers’ generally dissimilar sounds — Dessner leans pastoral, and Antonoff, synthetic — both inflect the record, it could be anything from folk to indie pop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word Yes to call forth the injunction, Read it again?

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts

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

But there’s no denying that his former alter ego Ben Covington inflects his current roles, especially on “Grey’s Anatomy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

“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

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

Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Frank, formerly a member of the pop duo Surfaces, has exploded in the past year by making Christian music that pairs hip-hop inflected beats with relentlessly sunny lyrics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

As a result, Western Digital’s free-cash-flow yield inflected positive at the end of 2024 and has increased ever since.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

Lennox, a Belfast native who previously worked on the Troubles-themed coming of age comedy “Derry Girls,” played an essential role in setting its tone which, though grim, is also inflected with dark humor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

Jacob’s was inflected with the rhythms of the Hebrew Bible and the beit midrash where the men of his village studied and argued.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“The company says it is seeing margins inflecting, demand strengthening and increased diversification of its customer base.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“We believe the -10 carries a strong pricing profile and will likely be critical for margins inflecting positive in 2027,” wrote RBC analyst Ken Herbert in a preview report.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

“We expect the investor debate to remain very sensitive to inflecting top-line momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

“While economic uncertainty remains, we believe the profit cycle is inflecting higher,” the strategists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

With unerring but inflecting fidelity, we filled, and mixed, and stirred, and watched, the fatal caldron.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various


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