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Recent Examples of bendable
The bendable craft item can be shaped into bunny ears and attached to the top of a hood with hot glue or safety pins.
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Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The contoured temples are bendable, allowing the wearer to dial in the perfect fit, and the nose pads were designed to be comfortable during high-output workouts.
—Will Porter, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
The comfy slip-ons have an arch-support footbed, but the shoe’s standout detail is its soft upper and lightweight, bendable design; these shoes are easy to pack and save on luggage space.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
In Burnett’s younger years, her body was as gangly and bendable as a marionette.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
While organic thin-film transistors built on flexible plastic have been around long enough for people to start discussing a Moore’s Law for bendable ICs, memory devices for these flexible electronics have been a bit more elusive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2024
The Yancy offers arch support and a gentle rebound, and are also machine-washable and easy to pack, thanks to their ultra-bendable design.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The contoured temples are bendable, allowing the wearer to dial in the perfect fit, and the nose pads were designed to be comfortable during high-output workouts.
—Will Porter, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
The comfy slip-ons have an arch-support footbed, but the shoe’s standout detail is its soft upper and lightweight, bendable design; these shoes are easy to pack and save on luggage space.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
In Burnett’s younger years, her body was as gangly and bendable as a marionette.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
While organic thin-film transistors built on flexible plastic have been around long enough for people to start discussing a Moore’s Law for bendable ICs, memory devices for these flexible electronics have been a bit more elusive.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2024
The Yancy offers arch support and a gentle rebound, and are also machine-washable and easy to pack, thanks to their ultra-bendable design.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bendable
Adjective
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Bake until bacon is just starting to brown but is still pliable, 12 to 18 minutes.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Basketweavers separate strips of wood, often from black ash trees, soak them into pliable strips, and weave them into baskets for practical and cultural use.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Raskob took his own leap into the political fray by bankrolling Smith and using the DNC to settle scores—with the help of a pliant press.—
Evan Hughes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.—
Jacob Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Even though one model is rigid and the other is bendy, both showed similar trends in how water changes with pressure, and those trends matched what experiments found.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
26 Oct. 2025
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From the bendy palm trees of Thunderbird 2's iconic launch sequence to epic set-pieces featuring collapsing skyscrapers and doomed hypersonic jets, this kids' show could go toe-to-toe with the big screen's best.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These high-resolution images are a first step toward tailoring magnesium alloys to be both more ductile and more stable, bringing them closer to large-scale use in cars and other vehicles.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Aug. 2025
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The 22-year-old Spanish singer-songwriter boasts an ethereal, ductile voice that sounds equally convincing singing solo with flamenco guitar accompaniment or over dance beats.—
Leila Cobo,
Billboard,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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Instead, the moss’s telltale sign of woe is its glum, grayish hue, a waxen appearance that comes from ferns and algae that have crept over it.—
Sabrina Imbler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Dec. 2020
Adjective
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Chestnut, chocolate, umber—in these deep shades, suede’s supple texture brings dimension to otherwise simple outfits, such as jeans and a winter coat.—
Shelby Ying Hyde,
Glamour,
11 Nov. 2025
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Ostrich Leather Recognizable by its distinctive quill pattern and supple texture, ostrich leather combines durability with an unusual kind of beauty.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Nat wore a slinky blue dress, which suited her willowy frame.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Related Stories The conversation opened with Korea’s webtoon ecosystem, a prolific source of globally adaptable IP.—
Lin Ying-Hsuan,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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With seven adaptable meeting rooms and an outdoor terrace known as The Nest, the hotel provides a focused and private environment for rest, recovery, and team operations.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Bendable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendable. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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