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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However, if an employee purchases eligible health care items or services during furlough, they can’t be reimbursed from a flexible spending account until the worker returns to pay status and payroll deductions can be made.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Tourists are still enjoying Michigan's lineup of dynamic fall events amid Apple Month and Michigan Agritourism Month this October and are flexible to changing fall color patterns, said Nick Nerbonne, media and digital director for Travel Michigan.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Its lagers and IPAs tend to skew floral and citrusy, perfect for sipping from a plastic cup in the brewery's dog park.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
6 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the people defacing Friend’s advertisements are expressing a much larger, inchoate rage at the broader AI industry, not just these plastic pendants that practically nobody owns.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
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For months, Josh Merrill thought Preller — who, of course, was wearing a floppy hat and basketball shorts that day — was an international scout.—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The bristles are neither too floppy nor too stiff, neither too long nor too short, and are cut to the perfect rounded shape that’s just right for swirling pigment over the apples or spreading it along your cheekbones—without having to work too hard for a completely natural finish.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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