inflection
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“We had private companies that were staying private for longer before doing an IPO, and we would see that there were then inflection points where they needed liquidity for existing shareholders,” Simmons said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sometimes inflection points only become apparent in retrospect.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Funko was at an interesting inflection point,” said 48-year-old Simon, who lives in Los Feliz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Yet, the country's push for clean energy appears to have reached a crucial inflection point.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
His voice was like a sheet of smooth grey slate, without the barest hint of inflection or emotion.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“Around major turning points, including the post-global financial crisis disinflation and post-pandemic inflation surge, neither diffusion measure identified inflections in the trend materially earlier than core PCE inflation,” the Nomura economists note.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The singer-rapper’s 2018 debut album, “Lady Wrangler,” was almost entirely hip-hop with a few twangy inflections in the instrumentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Analyst Adrienne Yih said the upgrade reflected “recent operational progress, financial inflections, and management’s disciplined actions.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
On Karma, that includes everything from the Brazilian funk rhythms of Ceremony, to pop-punk inflections of In My Head, which riffs on the sounds of Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed’s; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical,—very intolerable, in short.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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