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Recent Examples of compressible
However, for shorter flights or limited bag space, compact, compressible options — such as inflatable neck pillows, silk sleep masks, or small travel blankets — are more practical.
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Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2025
The limits announced by Beijing on Tuesday also include exports of super-hard materials, such as diamonds and other synthetic materials that are not compressible and extremely dense.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
There are discounts on essentials like sleep masks, compressible packing cubes, and supportive neck pillows.
—Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2024
The muscles are made of a compressible skeleton and air or fluid medium encased in a flexible skin, and are powered by pressure difference.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2017
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Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2025
The limits announced by Beijing on Tuesday also include exports of super-hard materials, such as diamonds and other synthetic materials that are not compressible and extremely dense.
—Elaine Kurtenbach, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
There are discounts on essentials like sleep masks, compressible packing cubes, and supportive neck pillows.
—Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2024
The muscles are made of a compressible skeleton and air or fluid medium encased in a flexible skin, and are powered by pressure difference.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compressible
Adjective
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Made with an elastic waistband and an easy slip-on design (no buttons, no problem), these travel pants are ideal for both the plane and the office.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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This style is similar to Vivaia’s with its lace-up closure and elastic backing that forms to your heel.—
Rylee Johnston,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This actually perfect pie crust is very, very pliable.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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This causes the eardrum, a thin, pliable membrane, to stretch.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But New Orleans is more than resilient.—
Essence,
Essence,
5 Sep. 2025
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This beautiful flight attendant is resilient, hardworking, and looking for her soulmate.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Older adults’ brains are also malleable, but less so.—
Paul Spann,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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And sometimes a rift develops between the world and a mind, a stark reminder that awareness is malleable.—
Andrea Gawrylewski,
Scientific American,
2 Sep. 2025
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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And the Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) provisions are workable, according to UBS.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Aryna Sabelenka has kept her feelings at a workable spirit level, but the Belarusian was pretty sure that Jelena Ostapenko’s outburst at the net with Taylor Townsend had something to do with the former’s personal issues.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This led Liu to wonder if these pliant electronics might keep up with the mutable nature of embryonic brains.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 June 2025
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Japan hasn’t been as pliant as Trump seemed to expect.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Made from recycled bottles, these bendable, machine-washable sneakers form to fit the mold of your feet, so each pair feels like it was made just for you.—
Claire Gallam,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Aug. 2025
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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,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2024
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“Compressible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compressible. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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