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What does inflect mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
  2. (music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  3. (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
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But I believe the historical conjunction that gave rise to accountability continues to inflect and propel it.
Nevertheless, it does inflect achievement, and clearly restricts potential.
If we could inflect demographic trends in these countries, we could curb world population growth.
Individual producers, distributors, and exhibitors inflect key tropes of Australianness, like the bush myth, in different ways.
We cannot stop the inexorable sweep of time, he says, but we can inflect it with a human voice and touch.
And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.

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