elastic

Example Sentences

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"Missile range is an elastic thing - in that if you put a lighter warhead on a missile, you can extend its range," he told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Hanson crossed Redwood Creek on a fallen log at the northern edge of the high severity burn, an elastic term that generally means an area where most of the trees are dead.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Diagnostic standards can be elastic, and states provide little oversight of providers and pay claims without requiring verification of treatment or benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

But if your elastic wrapping paper has a pattern on it, stretching it this way will distort the pattern, enlarging some parts and not others.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Dylan, on the other hand, though not gifted with Elvis’s tremulous voice or elastic thighs, wrote the kind of lyrics that might change a whole society’s way of seeing itself.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall