elastic
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The initial throttle response can feel lethargic, the gas pedal too elastic; then, when the network gets the news, the power comes in a rush, often a tick after you really need it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The elastic is long gone and the shorts are unwearable.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Edward Albee’s “The Play About the Baby,” which he saw when he was a freshman at NYU, was another work that showed him just how elastic and encompassing drama can be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He underwent surgery in September to have "super elastic" springs inserted, which gradually reshaped his skull before being removed.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
When she saw the pool, an impulse seized her, and she ran out onto the green elastic cover to test its strength, Charlie the dog loping after her.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Practically overnight, I had to adjust to how my new glasses slid down my nose and the way the elastics tethered to my braces snapped like rubber bands in a junk drawer.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025
So silk scrunchies are a go-to at home: “They don’t pull or snag” the way other hair elastics would, she says.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
She said: "That's not my jaw and neck in real life - and I can't walk around with tape and elastics everywhere."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2022
In the mornings, it took no small effort for Avril to pull the hair back from her face and impose a kind of order on it with elastics and hair grips.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2021
Other waiters wore readymade bows attached to elastics.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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