inflections

noun

plural of inflection
as in curvatures
something that curves or is curved the inflection of the river is even more obvious when viewed from the summit of the nearby mountain

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Recent Examples of inflections The film’s wondrously street-lyrical patter, its emblematic phrases and inflections, amount to a vast act of world-building—a lost milieu brought back to life in bygone clichés. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026 Tommy is already a natural punk with his grimaces, British vocal inflections and wide-eyed expressions behind the drum kit. — Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 In a video of her final performance, Lee snaps fluidly in and out of African-American Vernacular English, applying different accents and inflections. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026 Two characters who were stressed about keeping a secret had vocal inflections that could only be described as banal. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 10 June 2026 Roher and co-writer Robert Ramsay craft a classically structured screenplay about a talented piano tuner who stumbles into a life of crime, upon which Roher, editor Greg O’Bryant, and composer Will Bates embroider jazzy rhythms and inflections, inspired by the musical world our characters inhabit. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 The contrast between svn4vr’s different inflections evokes the spiritual tension of a pious person torn between worldly desire and submission to a higher power. — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2026 The chorus leaves the beach for the boardwalk, its cocky doo-wop inflections presenting loneliness less as an inner weakness and more as a loyalty test. — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 16 Mar. 2026 Look for choppy sentences, unusual inflections, abnormal phrasing, or incongruent background noise. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflections
  1. curvatures
  2. curves
  3. bends
  4. angles
Noun
  • These New Balance sneakers have thick, firm outsoles with upward curvatures.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • There are hardly any flat architectural surfaces, and NAUSICAÄ is shaped by curvatures and louvred details.
    — Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Definition of curvatures
Noun
  • These include vehicles stopped in curves, vehicles positioned across multiple lanes, and stationary vehicles sitting at unusual angles, such as those encountered near an earlier roadway incident.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The back seat was somewhat compromised in headroom and legroom (and torso room, thanks to a giant center console), but the car’s curves more than made up for its flaws—at least, from the driver’s seat.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of curves
Noun
  • What Could Be Next The near-term trajectory bends on three questions.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Adjacent to the bookstore, the untitled work bends and bulges on a plywood structure.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of bends
Noun
  • The president’s party almost always loses ground in midterms, but Trump’s policies in the past two years — from tariffs, cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, as well as Iran — offered few promising angles for reversing that curse.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Ganondorf is the ultimate example of this, with his visage keeping its cartoonishly sinister sharp angles and unnaturally green pallor.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of angles

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“Inflections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflections. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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