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plastic

adjective as in flexible, soft; made of manufactured, treated compounds

adjective as in artificial; made of manufactured compounds

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Wrapped tightly in plastic and tape, it smelled like warming spices and thick icing before it was even opened.

From Salon

The baby's decomposing body was found in a plastic bag in a shed on a Brighton allotment almost two months later.

From BBC

It said jobs could be created in areas like sustainable aviation fuel, hydrogen production and plastics recycling but it would require £3.5bn of private investment.

From BBC

Pickleball is similar to tennis except the court is smaller, the ball is plastic and perforated and the paddles are not as big as tennis rackets.

They could all coexist in the same swirl of chaos — belief over logic, loyalty over evidence, vibes over value — what Rush Limbaugh used to call a “phony-baloney plastic banana good-time rock-and-roll” kind of thing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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