inflect
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"Markets understand this dynamic, and they also tend to inflect before the political endgame is formally in place."
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 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
“Not only at IBM, but the market overall, rebounded to inflect to growth,” Kavanaugh said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 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
Dr. Johnson, indeed, made the preterit subjunctive like the indicative; and this may have induced the author to change his plan, and inflect this part of the verb with st.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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