elastic
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The team used mathematical models to explain how these unusual elastic effects may arise at the atomic level.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
Behind that elastic label stands a vast apparatus of subsidies, set-asides and regulatory exemptions that reaches well beyond these loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
It uses low-stretch climbing ropes that convert the fall into a horizontal, pendulum swing, while bungee jumping uses an elastic rubber cord that creates a vertical, bouncing effect.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Woodring wrote he remains “cautious” that strength in the first half of the fiscal year leads to “more elastic demand” and weaker second half earnings.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Pietro Crespi wore special pants on those days, very elastic and tight, and dancing slippers.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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