inflects

• “The smaller, leaner Mr. Pa ñ os inflects his solo dancing with signs of ballet's vocabulary, notably in pirouette-like spins in the raised, bent-leg attitude of classical ballet.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Broad View of Flamenco

• “It can be pitched at different angles, each of which inflects meaning.”

  Fictionaut: A Museum of Numbers

• “The answer you are seeking is called the "logistics curve" in which the first portion of the curve is exponential, then inflects at some point as a critical resource is used up, and becomes asymptotic.”

  Economists Too Linear?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Attention will be paid to ways in which each poet's contribution affects and inflects the larger culture to which he or she belongs and the dialogue that might be said to take shape between or across distinct cultures.”

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• “The way a head bob or a knowing chuckle inflects a statement such as "I spend a lot of time suffering.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Woody Allen on Death, Love and Financial Backing

• “She inflects her voice with all the time in the world, as if her whole day has been on pause until she returned to motherhood.”

  Simon & Schuster: Healer

• “The lack of faith that Kennedy can deal with the crisis is almost palpable among the senior military figures, and the stress this inflects on the President is well-depicted by Greenwood.”

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• “Iyer's trio doesn't worry about swinging all the time, although the buoyancy of swing inflects their rhythms as much as hip-hop does.”

  NPR: Losing Jazz's Preconceptions With 'Historicity'

• “That desire inflects every aspect of his political thought.”

  Should Cameron have told us how he will do it?

• “Our increasing power inflects upwards ever more rapidly - approaching its asymptote:”

  Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted

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