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
Look for choppy sentences, unusual inflections, abnormal phrasing, or incongruent background noise.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
Sometimes autism’s portrayed in movies with quirky head movements, weird blinks, and weird inflections.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
The widely varied performances are quietly yet keenly expressive; Reichardt’s dialogue has enticingly odd spin (starting with an ingenious monologue for a precocious child) and the cast delivers it with pinpoint inflections.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Her repetitions and stammerings and strange inflections were very much her own, as a perusal of her interviews will attest.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
From bouncy dancehall riddims and hip-hop production inflections to tender country and western guitar licks, Treasure Self Love distills Iké’s wide range of childhood music into a succinct 11-track study of achieving wholeness by unflinchingly examining the darkest parts of your past.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
The Sweet Dove Died is considered Pym’s most Jamesian work and there are inflections of the Master in the themes of falling out of love, renunciation, and collecting—the pursuit of beauty falling short.
—Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
That feature, called Voice Translate is designed to also preserve the speaker's voice inflections.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
For each set of symptoms, deep-learning models analyze the person’s words, rhythms, and inflections to generate a score.
—Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2024
Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
Sometimes autism’s portrayed in movies with quirky head movements, weird blinks, and weird inflections.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
The widely varied performances are quietly yet keenly expressive; Reichardt’s dialogue has enticingly odd spin (starting with an ingenious monologue for a precocious child) and the cast delivers it with pinpoint inflections.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Her repetitions and stammerings and strange inflections were very much her own, as a perusal of her interviews will attest.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
From bouncy dancehall riddims and hip-hop production inflections to tender country and western guitar licks, Treasure Self Love distills Iké’s wide range of childhood music into a succinct 11-track study of achieving wholeness by unflinchingly examining the darkest parts of your past.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
The Sweet Dove Died is considered Pym’s most Jamesian work and there are inflections of the Master in the themes of falling out of love, renunciation, and collecting—the pursuit of beauty falling short.
—Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
That feature, called Voice Translate is designed to also preserve the speaker's voice inflections.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
For each set of symptoms, deep-learning models analyze the person’s words, rhythms, and inflections to generate a score.
—Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflections
Noun
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Its outstanding appeal, grandish curvatures and extraordinary interior design are just the norm for the upscale interior brand.—
Marc D. Grasso,
Boston Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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Posture Changes Spine curvatures can make standing up straight difficult, causing lower right back pain.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
6 Sep. 2025
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Astrophysicist inspired by the Torah Vera Rubin, an astronomer whose observations of galaxy rotation curves in the 1970s provided the first robust evidence for dark matter’s existence, embraced her Jewish faith as a guide to understanding her role in the universe.—
Deepa Bharath,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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That carries across to the exterior, where aggressive styling has been eschewed in favor of long, horizontal lines and subtle curves.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As the temperature drops, the cold causes the protein to shift into a more stable state in which one of its key structural pillars bends sharply, breaks away from its neighbor and straightens out.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
25 Mar. 2026
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By contrast, the second joint in each leg bends readily, but only sideways and outward, favoring efficient lateral locomotion.—
Manjishtha Bhattacharyya,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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From certain angles the car almost resembles a futuristic endurance racer rather than a commuter appliance.—
Sponsored Content,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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Engineers can adjust wing sweep angles and swap out components to test different configurations over time.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Inflections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflections. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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