malleable

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“The microbiome is malleable and early in life is when it gets set up,” said Justin Sonnenburg, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, who has led several studies on the infant microbiome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

This isn’t true — one can be wrong without lying, and memory is malleable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

But they’re also malleable; there’s no telling what might affect them, or what a child might carry with them throughout their life.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 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

Either common sense is amorphous and malleable, to the extent that all the beliefs that are shared within a community are compatible with common sense.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton