expansible
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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And while human desires were expansible, he doubted whether the demand for goods could possibly increase with sufficient rapidity to absorb the new productive capacities of the nation.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
It is a fixed quantity; the appetite is indefinitely expansible.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various