malleable

Example Sentences

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Rather than emphasizing unchangeable characteristics, he presented human beings as malleable over long stretches of time.

From The Wall Street Journal

What about the ecosystem or nervous system of Los Angeles is baiting jazz music out from its malleable shadow into a renewed prominence and even granting it rank in the clout economy?

From Los Angeles Times

This isn’t true — one can be wrong without lying, and memory is malleable.

From Los Angeles Times

Infant words whose meanings are still malleable pose little problem for the dictionary’s online database, since they can be updated whenever required.

From The Wall Street Journal

But they’re also malleable; there’s no telling what might affect them, or what a child might carry with them throughout their life.

From Salon