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Adjective
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But whether that would make Tehran more pliant, let alone spur regime change, is questionable.—
Ramin Mostaghim,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026 -
Expect someone more pliant to become the next Fed chair.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Heat strengthens pure metals Standard metallurgical rules dictate that heat eases atomic movement, rendering metals more pliable and simpler to reshape under normal conditions.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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The big toy that season was a pliable putty invented twenty years earlier by a man with the distinctly non-Jewish name of McVicker to clean coal soot from wallpaper, then rebranded, for children, as Play-Doh.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Most commonly used during cooking and baking, as well as covering items for storage, aluminum foil is a malleable sheet of metal that's made by rolling elements together.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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When breed standards are as malleable as flesh, the best way to control the future is to create it.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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That suits the artless, unfiltered way Yo describes her life, spending a fair amount of time recollecting her own childhood.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Feb. 2026
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By contrast, Erika is a vamp, a woman whose wardrobe encompasses high fashion and BDSM — maybe this is what makes Erika choose him to be her assistant, just as her icy, dominatrix cool appeals to the refreshingly artless Elliot.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2026
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Five goals down at half-time, the Azerbaijani champions were hapless and guileless, incapable of delaying or deflecting Gordon’s acceleration and utterly without attacking merit until the game was yanked far beyond them.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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In the scrum of literature about the Kennedys and their satellites, the wives, saddled with the heavy work of making the family grow, Beller’s book is guileless.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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This sort of behavior is childish and unsophisticated.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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And Blackstone is not an unsophisticated hotel owner.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The Europeans insist that a genuine popular movement against the regime arose in recent months but that it was shut down in an unprecedented wave of violence.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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In the short term, instability in the Gulf represents genuine economic pain for China rather than strategic opportunity.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
2 Mar. 2026
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Channels the inner, bestial urges to release an unworldly howl that pushes back any nearby enemies.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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He is known for pioneering overuse of the Auto-Tune effect, giving his vocals an unworldly quality.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2025
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“Fictile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictile. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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