inflection

“The U.S. is at an inflection point,” a spokesperson for LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD, who declined to provide their name out of fear of harassment, told Salon.

Americans are paying attention to the current political moment to see what the rise in socialist candidates like himself means, he said, and that’s an inflection point critical to determining the Democratic Party’s future.

"We're at an inflection point between those who argue that autocracy is the best way forward and those who understand that democracy is essential," Biden said in 2021.

As both Bell and Oliver pointed out, that’s precisely why Kimmel’s benching, temporarily though it turned out to be, is a political inflection point.

Lyons’ arrival would be a major inflection point.