Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

inflect

[in-flekt] / ɪnˈflɛkt /






Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

My plan involves new products, wider distribution and better marketing that together will inflect the growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The analysts said that at Sweetgreen, they expect that “store traffic will take time to inflect positively as macro pressures are likely to persist and consumer spending remains depressed, particularly among younger consumers.”

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026

Cat shares, again, typically trade at a discount to the market, although the stock’s price-to-earnings ratio tends to be highest before its cyclical earnings inflect higher.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

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

I read aloud to Miss Sullivan and recited passages from my favourite poets, which I had committed to memory; she corrected my pronunciation and helped me to phrase and inflect.

From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by John Albert Macy

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

And I’m very interested in how to situate and compose and arrange and organize these artifacts, and how you orchestrate the kind of co-occupancy where one artifact inflects another artifact, which inflects two other artifacts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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

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

That idea has inflected a lot of their jurisprudence on voting rights.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

So far, the 2020’s have been something of a golden era for tropically inflected pop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

The latter thought, inflected with both promise and peril, should concern us all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We’re definitely in a premium valuation territory,” Jefferies analyst Joseph Gallo says in an interview, adding that inflecting fundamentals could support upward estimate revisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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

“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




Vocabulary lists containing inflect


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com