inflect

Example Sentences

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Are the verbs going to be inflected for tense, for number, for affect, all that stuff?

From Salon

Their upbeat music, inflected with R&B, synth-pop and hip-hop, is undeniably charming and nimble with genre, as evidenced on their forthcoming mini album “Ready to Be,” out this week.

From Los Angeles Times

He made the kind of music that people needed to hyphenate in order to explain: “-inflected,” “-inspired,” “-infused.”

From Los Angeles Times

So everything swishes with a kind of instant, all-at-once connectivity, as shapes reiterate other shapes and colors inflect colors.

From Washington Post

The Federal Reserve continued its campaign to lift interest rates to tame rising prices on Wednesday, but this time the announcement of another increase — by a quarter point — was inflected with some optimism.

From New York Times