as in curving
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 inflecting
Free cash flow is inflecting higher for VZ.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
Lockwood has admired Plath for years; what confounded her was the biographical approach to her work, the terrible death inflecting everything that came before.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
Lockwood has admired Plath for years; what confounded her was the biographical approach to her work, the terrible death inflecting everything that came before.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflecting
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Didier—tall, blondish, and well fed—took a black iron pan having fairly high, curving sides, set it near the edge of the hot, flat metal cooktop, filled it halfway with coarse salt, and every so often shook it back and forth.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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Its exterior is most notable for its gently curving facades across the building’s west and south faces.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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Wonderlab’s focus will be creating wildly fun, commercial, character-driven, genre-bending films.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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The focus is creating wildly fun, commercial, character-driven, genre-bending films.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2026
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Denver had the state’s second-largest population loss last year at 978, reflecting net domestic outflows of 8,023, less a natural increase of 4,197, and continued immigration of 2,871.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
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The third was to free the Iranian people from a brutally oppressive government and move the country toward democratic representation reflecting the aspirations and talents of its 90 million people.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Related Stories The film shatters stereotypical visuals of space, veering away from cold and desaturated colors, and using warmer tones such as orange.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
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Speaking to Variety in January, the original film’s star Amanda Seyfried expressed an interest in returning for at least a cameo in a future Housemaid sequel despite McFadden’s series veering away from her character Nina Winchester.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
30 Mar. 2026
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Environmental groups that have held Toyota up for years as a laggard on EVs offered a much less charitable take, saying the Japanese manufacturer is simply bowing now to their years of pressure to urge them to press the gas on electric cars as the world's largest carmaker.—
Keith Laing,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Food is prepared and offered; soju is poured; there’s bowing, candles, a special table and floor mat, and absolutely no shoes.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Inflecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflecting. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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