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elastic

[ih-las-tik] / ɪˈlæs tɪk /




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Participants received four elastic resistance bands and an adjustable-height stepper, along with written instructions explaining how to perform each movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The elastic is long gone and the shorts are unwearable.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Edward Albee’s “The Play About the Baby,” which he saw when he was a freshman at NYU, was another work that showed him just how elastic and encompassing drama can be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

But now experts have developed new "super elastic" springs using a special metal called nitinol, a nickel and titanium alloy, with Rory the first patient to have them fitted.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

It looked almost exactly like mine: parted in the middle with a Goody elastic on each plump, twisted ponytail.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Practically overnight, I had to adjust to how my new glasses slid down my nose and the way the elastics tethered to my braces snapped like rubber bands in a junk drawer.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

So silk scrunchies are a go-to at home: “They don’t pull or snag” the way other hair elastics would, she says.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

In the mornings, it took no small effort for Avril to pull the hair back from her face and impose a kind of order on it with elastics and hair grips.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2021

"Tights must not be coloured, hair must not be dyed, the colour of hair elastics is fixed, and they must not be worn on the wrist," she says.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2019

It was always done up with either elaborate braids that zigzagged over her scalp, or teeny poofy ponytails that sprouted all over her head, bound by bright pink and orange elastics with marble-size pom-poms.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda


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