malleable

Example Sentences

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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 • Jan. 28, 2026

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 • Dec. 19, 2025

The layered effect is magical—as if the vessel were malleable, atmospheric, and the figures were frolicking within its translucent skin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

It was a malleable way of thinking about governing ourselves.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown