malleable
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Language is malleable, but it has to retain some meaning.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
The world of politics is more malleable and short-term.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: In your article, you draw out the fact that lawyers are extremely uneasy about invoking the language of morality, because morality is either too malleable or just sanctimonious and annoying.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026
Rather than emphasizing unchangeable characteristics, he presented human beings as malleable over long stretches of time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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