inflected

past tense of inflect

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inflected But sure enough, the artist born Frederick John Philip Gibson enlisted Amy Taylor and company for his drum n’ bass-inflected latest single, harnessing the group’s energy and then exploding it with Gesaffelstein-like sirens and typically all-over-the-place vocal triggers. Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025 Kirk’s evangelicalism inflected both the tone and content of his message. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025 Despite the risks, the approach worked; sales for the first half of 2025 finally show a positive trend led by the QX80 and its smaller three-row crossover sibling, the QX60, also inflected with much of the new design language. Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 By the early 2000s, Rolling Stone seemed overly preoccupied with Boomer artists of fading vitality; Spin, while containing punchy criticism, was a glossy consumer magazine inflected by celebrity and fashion. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025 But closer to me, and with greater incident, these phrases are inflected by the voice of Hiba Abu Nada, the Gazan poet who was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on October 20, 2023. Huda Fakhreddine august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 Bird flu has also inflected other animals, including dairy cattle. Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025 While unwelcome, this might have been dismissed as a fickle and politically inflected data series had it not been preceded by Walmart’s cautious first-quarter guidance, the shortfall in January retail sales, a soft services-sector gauge and rollovers in some travel-and-dining stocks. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025 The works trick the eye into seeing the places where beauty becomes enfolded with violence, where the gleam of the universe is inflected with gore. Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflected
Verb
  • Featuring an ergonomic, curved back that will keep you comfortable long after dessert has finished, plus a plush foam seat, this set of four keeps things fresh and elegant.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The difference in the zero-point energy of space between those two locations tells us, as first derived in Hawking’s 1974 paper, that radiation will be emitted from the region around the black hole, where space is curved the most strongly.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Anderson is a popular figure within the Forest dressing room, where his energetic work-rate is reflected in his personality.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Inside the nearly one-thousand-year-old castle, William reflected on his late grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Season 1 of the podcast kicked off with astrophysicist Neil deGrass Tyson, but quickly veered into a much more eclectic lineup.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The white Chevrolet Silverado, reported stolen earlier from the Flagstaff Police Department, veered onto a guardrail before flipping multiple times and crashing into a tree.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In practice, Musk bowed to authoritarian governments or banned critical journalists when their reporting annoyed him.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Elllington, surprised, half-bowed back.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Broncos basically ran four verticals with the receivers, and Engram bent a crossing route toward the middle of the field.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The front ants bent their legs and pulled hard at the leaf tip with their mandibles while the rear ants held the leaf still.
    Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Inflected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflected. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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