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shapeable

adjective as in plastic

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Rather than using the traditional stovetop cooking method, I steamed the grits in banana leaves, which gave them a thicker, shapeable consistency.

Without going into too much detail, zirconium is a shapeable metal that's highly resistant to corrosion.

Lewis Mumford once called wood “the most various, the most shapeable, the most serviceable of all . . . material” that humans have used in their conquest of their environment.

He was more interested in the shapeable now.

And if the idea of the shapeable, nuance-intensive shadow-and-light image — the mysterious Aspern papers, the golden bowl, the elusive figure in the Persian carpet — was central to James’s fiction, so were the lives of artists and writers he knew.

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

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