as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the kids love to use bendy straws
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Recent Examples of bendy
Made from knitting yarn and food-grade wax, these colorful, bendy sticks give kids the freedom to build and create (without making a mess).
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Laura Lu, Parents, 30 June 2025
Yarbrough has tinkered with his pitch mix to favor the slower, bendier stuff, and it’s been working.
—Owen Poindexter, New York Times, 20 June 2025
This project is one of the many ways that physicists have sought to understand gravity, and perhaps the bendy space-time continuum itself, as emergent from deeper, more microscopic physics.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025
The boar bristles are bendy to move with hair but still stiff enough to detangle knots.
—Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 12 June 2025
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Laura Lu, Parents, 30 June 2025
Yarbrough has tinkered with his pitch mix to favor the slower, bendier stuff, and it’s been working.
—Owen Poindexter, New York Times, 20 June 2025
This project is one of the many ways that physicists have sought to understand gravity, and perhaps the bendy space-time continuum itself, as emergent from deeper, more microscopic physics.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025
The boar bristles are bendy to move with hair but still stiff enough to detangle knots.
—Olivia Cigliano, Footwear News, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bendy
Adjective
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Strategies will remain flexible to adjust to changing fire behavior, terrain, and resource availability.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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By learning from nature’s most flexible swimmer, the octopus, researchers hope to overcome these challenges and make underwater machines more capable, adaptable, and sustainable.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An in-person visit with the singer was leaked on social media in January 2024 where the pair shared an intimate moment through a plastic divider.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Each cell had two toilets and two small tanks of water, for washing and drinking; each man was given a plastic cup and a quarter of a bar of soap.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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So pack that sunscreen, toss a floppy hat into your weekend bag, and get ready to sip fruity drinks with tiny umbrellas.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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An amaryllis bulb naturally grows long floppy leaves, staking them upright would look ridiculous.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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