inflect

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

From Salon

The story of Reagan's racially inflected attacks on welfare programs is well-known.

From Salon

The art museum’s director, Christina Nielsen, said in an email that advisability of a loan was not part of the panel’s brief, “as we did not want treatment decisions inflected by travel considerations.”

From Los Angeles Times

One story strand moves forward in time, another carries the reader backward, to see the previous decisions and wounds that inflect each choice.

From New York Times

“The idea I took from it was precisely the idea that there is no such thing as a dispassionate observer, that every narrative is inflected by the narrator’s bias.”

From Seattle Times