flexible

Example Sentences

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"The winners will likely be the projects that are low-cost, flexible, and geopolitically secure, rather than massive expansion for expansion’s sake," he added.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

"Filopodia allow a memory system to be both flexible and robust. You need flexibility to acquire new information, but you also need stability to retain the important information."

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

From there, it’s flexible: corn if you have it, avocado if you want richness, herbs if you remembered to buy them.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Russia, Angola, Venezuela and Brazil were preferred; the Mideast firms were less flexible on pricing, one teapot executive said in 2016.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker