flexible
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Some in Kyiv -- a city of three million people -- consider the security protocols ineffective, with experts suggesting a more flexible approach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
To test whether diamond could behave differently under extreme mechanical conditions, the HKU team used a recently developed edge exfoliation method to produce an ultrathin, flexible polycrystalline diamond membrane.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
To do it, the instrument can maneuver a flexible mirror with near-atomic-scale precision to focus the bright starlight into a pinprick, then block it with a mask so it can observe the dim planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
EU officials, meanwhile, say they can be flexible about the bloc’s rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Soon, the invaders had taken over the English countryside using hundred-foot-high fighting machines with spiderlike legs and “long, flexible, glittering tentacles.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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