pliable
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He may be tempted by the same template of removing Khamenei, and hoping for better luck with a more pliable successor, diplomats and Iran watchers say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
This paradox raised a fundamental question: how can the planet's solid center appear firm yet strangely pliable?
From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025
Canned crescent dough, improbably, was just right: pliable without tearing, sturdy without getting tough, and still capable of a respectable rise.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025
UCLA’s defense was too pliable in allowing the Illini to shoot 50.9% on the way to ending the Bruins’ seven-game winning streak.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
The problems were compliant, pliable; they yielded to my manipulations, forming into solutions, one after the other.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing pliable
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