malleable

Example Sentences

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That is bad news for big users of the malleable metal, from Michigan’s auto parts makers and Indiana’s recreational-vehicle factories to beer and soda companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: In your article, you draw out the fact that lawyers are extremely uneasy about invoking the language of morality, because morality is either too malleable or just sanctimonious and annoying.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

“I think that’s what makes it so fun because we’re really open to this idea of time being a little bit malleable, a little bit gelatinous,” Lopatin says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

“There are no harmless, compassionate ways to remake yourself,” says the malleable protagonist of Bharati Mukherjee’s novel “Jasmine.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

By problematizing the idea that experiments could be successfully replicated, the generation after Kuhn, the generation of Shapin and Schaffer, sought to demonstrate that experience itself is unpredictable, malleable, socially constructed.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton