All 3 Uses
flexible
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- On a good night or weekend afternoon maybe two hundred boys and girls would be flashing down the hill in stocking caps on their Flexible Flyers.†
Chpt 2. *flexible = bendable or adaptable
- Harry the Horse's mission at Camp Pendleton was to mold his 3,400 men of the 28th Regiment into a flexible fighting unit.†
Chpt 5.
- Flexible in that they had to be effective whether they were fighting together as a regiment or as a number of small teams.†
Chpt 5.
Definitions:
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(1)
(flexible) bendable or adaptablein various senses, including:
- easily bent without physical damage or injury -- as of a hose or gymnast
- able to adjust readily to different conditions -- as of a plan
- willing to make concessions -- as of a negotiator or a boss
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)