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Recent Examples on the Web As anyone with an iPhone can attest, even a much shorter drop can be fatal for the phones when the target is a concrete sidewalk, but with spongy grass serving as a shock absorber, the iPhone (apparently) just didn’t pick up enough speed to be smashed to smithereens. Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024 Unlike long bones, but like flat bones and irregular bones, short bones are primarily spongy, though they are also covered in a thin coating of compact bone. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023 The city of the future may be spongier in ways that are obviously verdant or more subtle. WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023 Almas caviar comes only from an albino beluga sturgeon that is over 100 years old, as older sturgeons have a spongier texture than younger fish, according to EHL Insights. Josie Goodrich, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for spongy 

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“Spongy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spongy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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