flexibility

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Recent Examples of flexibility But with the Sabres in a salary cap crunch, moving off the final season of his deal gives them more flexibility heading into the offseason. Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 24 June 2026 Sacramento could get under the first apron and tax moving on from DeRozan, but would lack real flexibility without being able to move on from LaVine or Sabonis, the latter of whom is making over $94 million combined over the next two seasons. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 The common thread is flexibility. Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026 A little flexibility can go a long way in savings. Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 24 June 2026 Michelle is way ahead of me on the whole stretching and flexibility tip. Janine Rubenstein, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026 But the likes of JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon aren’t giving their workers flexibility to clock off early and join the fans to watch the game. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2026 Also, one of the big themes of Homeric scholarship over the past few decades has been the flexibility of the narrative perspectives in the original poems and the subtlety of the narrative shifts. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026 For Minnesota, the trade creates a $33 million trade exception as well as financial flexibility to seek free agents to play alongside superstar Anthony Edwards. Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flexibility
Noun
  • Research on elite competitive eaters revealed that some individuals can train to increase the elasticity of their stomachs.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • This architecture balances public cloud elasticity with on-premise data protection.
    Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • More specifically, genres, whether spoken or written, reflect the changeability of their formal characteristics in connection to changes in the situation and the actions relevant to these genres.
    Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Universities must rethink education, focusing on fostering critical thinking, communication, and adaptability—skills AI struggles to replicate.
    Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • That Teng could even accomplish it and have some success speaks to his value and adaptability.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Those who recognize a compositional genius that grew out of constantly shifting dynamics and tempos, jazzy originality and infinite mutability.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The film addresses themes of injustice, accountability in journalism, the mutability of truth, who gets to frame the narrative, and who gets erased.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Pressure is building for standard definitions of stress, resilience and recovery speed, along with more clinical partnerships as regulators pay closer attention.
    Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2026
  • For investors, that means the old crisis playbook may no longer be enough, and building resilience could require a broader mix of assets rather than betting on a single traditional refuge.
    Lim Hui Jie,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • The clinical version dates to research in the 1960s and 1970s, when devices tracked heart rate variability, muscle tension and skin temperature to help people regulate what was once considered automatic.
    Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2026
  • When asked to run similar projections while modeling for factors such as return variability, family income and investor behavior, Morningstar showcases a more subdued picture of financial health for account holders at the same intervals.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • But Exxon is a disciplined producer able to weather the volatility.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • This pattern of extreme volatility is common in high-profile IPOs, where initial hype often inflates share values.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

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“Flexibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexibility. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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