elastic
Example Sentences
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"This suggests that many other elastic liquids might also break at a relatively similar critical stress point," Lima said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
"Missile range is an elastic thing - in that if you put a lighter warhead on a missile, you can extend its range," he told the BBC.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Hanson crossed Redwood Creek on a fallen log at the northern edge of the high severity burn, an elastic term that generally means an area where most of the trees are dead.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
If demand is elastic, consumers cut back, total spending falls, and less money flows to traffickers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
They’d be hard to get into; they’d have a sort of elastic rind, like a balloon.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
