elastic

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Lewis established one rhythm after another, each authoritative but also elastic and ever-shifting, often in answer to what one or another musician did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

"I've always said my success has been the equivalent of stretching an elastic band from Stoke-on-Trent to the Moon. Well, I reckon the elastic band just got longer, and now it's orbiting Venus."

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Things would be easier if your wrapping paper were made of elastic.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Not a slingshot, the forked stick with an elastic band attached to it, but the powerful sling with which David killed Goliath.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George