as in to curve
to change from a straight line or course to a curved one
tree limbs inflecting toward the trunk
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Recent Examples of inflect
These fundraisers are inflected with the emotional toll of disaster.
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Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
This is a sign that the company’s sales momentum continued after inflecting positive year over year in October for the first time since August 2022.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
The company’s third-quarter results , reported in mid-November, hinted that its business is bottoming out and poised to inflect positively next year.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
This was a good sign that business is bottoming and will inflect positively next year.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
This is a sign that the company’s sales momentum continued after inflecting positive year over year in October for the first time since August 2022.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
The company’s third-quarter results , reported in mid-November, hinted that its business is bottoming out and poised to inflect positively next year.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
This was a good sign that business is bottoming and will inflect positively next year.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Located at The Meadows at the top of Elk Camp Gondola, the Snowmass tubing experience takes you down multiple lanes, zooming, curving, gliding and spinning.—
Shauna Farnell,
The Denver Post,
29 Jan. 2025
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Worn slightly tousled and curved around her chin, the bob was the work of her longtime hairstylist Larry Sims.—
Morgan Fargo,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2025
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The show bends over backward to explain that the Sinatra nickname comes from Samantha’s frequent use of hats, even though Nicholson’s head is rarely covered.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Catholic Church in Venezuela bent the rules for the semiaquatic animal, allowing it to be eaten during Lent.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The crewed sorties were replaced by drone flights following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, a decision that appeared to reflect concern over the safety of American service personnel.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Such maps reflect the efforts by Palestinian stakeholders to continue surveying the territories that, since the Oslo Accords, were to make up the future state of Palestine.—
Christine Leuenberger,
The Conversation,
7 Feb. 2025
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Even with the acknowledgements of those Dead members missing from the stage, any solemnity was short-lived, and the tone veered more toward presenter Woody Harrelson’s introductory speech for the band’s kudos.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2025
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Those possibilities, though, appear severely threatened after old tweets of Gascón’s led her to issue an apology Thursday — the latest setback in an Oscar campaign that’s veering close to becoming a train wreck.—
Jake Coyle,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Inflect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflect. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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