pliant

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Expandable foam earplugs are made of pliant material designed to conform to the shape of the ear canal.

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The marshmallows were perfectly square and pliant, and its kits even come with moist towelettes—the one thing I wish I had at nearly every s’mores bonfire gathering.

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It’s a steely core—the ability to coolly rise above hardship, or to bend in the wind, zen-like and pliant.

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These were the slighted impressions on the earth—trace markings made by bare human feet pressing into the pliant mud of ancient lake.

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The IPO was canceled, Neumann was pushed out by his formerly pliant board of directors, and WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, couldn’t even lay off employees because it couldn’t afford severance packages.

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The pliant brain of a newborn infant is shaped in relations with the world mediated by the adults who take care of her, starting with the maternal gaze.

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She did not speak; she moved her fingers caressingly over his hand, thinking how pliant and feminine, how characteristic, it was.

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To know how to speak to a king is perhaps the sole art of a prudent and pliant courtier.

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Other men might find her pliant, pleasing, seductive; he alone knew her as disinterested.

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Not merely tall, but pliant, elastic, and graceful in no ordinary degree.

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