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inflect

[in-flekt] / ɪnˈflɛkt /






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But his new target price starts to value Tesla on earnings potential in 2030 and beyond, which is when he thinks revenue and margin performance will inflect higher following the current period of hefty spending.

From MarketWatch Jun. 5, 2026

"Markets understand this dynamic, and they also tend to inflect before the political endgame is formally in place."

From Barron's Mar. 26, 2026

She added that January’s gains were broad based across demographics, and that a chaotic month for international affairs hadn’t seemed to inflect consumers’ economic views.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 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

What confusion the practice must make in the language, especially when we come to inflect this part of the verb with st or est, has already been suggested.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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

Leichter’s deeper interest is in mining how transient, insecure work inflects our private life — if it even permits a private life.

From New York Times Feb. 25, 2020

An accidental is operative during the bar in which it occurs, and no further, unless it inflects the last note of a bar, and the next bar begins with the same note.

From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Clement A. Harris

The carrier said Wednesday that demand inflected positively in early July and maintained momentum in the ensuing months, pushing total operating revenue up 1.1% to a third-quarter record of $6.95 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 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

I think those things are part of it, but they are inflected naturally.

From Salon Oct. 23, 2024

Our place and our rights in this new world of artificial neural networks lie beyond certainty, inflected with the unknowable.

From Slate Sep. 22, 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

Now, Barclays spots signs of earnings momentum inflecting upwards.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

“We continue to aim to deepen our lead in all of them. And all of them feel like they’re inflecting at the same time, which is great.”

From Barron's Apr. 14, 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

For "the good gifts," he said ð=a g=odan giefa, inflecting "the" and at the same time changing the case ending of "good."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck




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