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  • a flexible personality
  • a flexible display monitor
  • She experiments, creating a text that is as succinct and flexible as poetry, snapping sentences into fragments so that the reader pauses, making each sentence serve her and not the other way round, abandoning quotation marks to streamline the typography and make the page as simple and readable as possible.  (source)
    flexible = adaptable in the sense that the rules are adjusted for different conditions
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  • I touched the baby's shoulder blades, felt how tiny and flexible they were.  (source)
    flexible = bendable
  • But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.  (source)
    flexibility = ability to adjust
  • The spare form flexibly acquiesced, but inertly.†  (source)
  • It was a big sled, light, polished wood with barely used metal runners and the words FLEXIBLE FLYER painted on it.  (source)
    FLEXIBLE = bendable (The brand name of the sled indicates that it has some give rather than being entirely rigid.)
  • Even though I was young, I understood and appreciated the flexibility that homeschooling provided.†  (source)
  • Just the same, the principle that a ruler's great freedom and great responsibility make possible great wisdom, an ability to act flexibly, moment by moment, not on a basis of hard and fast principles but on a basis of action and intuitive reaction—is worth thinking about.†  (source)
  • Each one of his folk was clad in a hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees, and his legs were covered with hose of a fine and flexible metal mesh, the secret of whose making was possessed by Dain's people.  (source)
    flexible = bending easily and repeatedly (in different directions in response to changing conditions)
  • As she grew younger it became easier to explain away the changes that appeared-to have occurred overnight-the old elm out front gone, the new apartment building on the corner where M. Nesbitt used to live in a colonial-era home, the absence of her friends-and Sol began to see as never before the flexibility of children.†  (source)
  • But unlike monkeys, which were loosely and flexibly organized, the dinosaurs settled into a rigid arrangement—almost a military formation, it seemed.†  (source)
  • These have a narrow flexible rubber sole with treads though.†  (source)
    flexible = bendable or adaptable
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