malleability

Example Sentences

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The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Lee says collapses happen often during the printing phase because of the moisture and malleability of the clay.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

It’s just further evidence of its convenient malleability.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

Instead of resigning himself to this – publicly, anyway – Hamill removed his face from the equation and doubled down on the malleability of his voice.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2023

But more than the material nature of the gene, it was the sheer malleability of the genome—that X-rays could make such Silly Putty of genes—that stunned scientists.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee