as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the kids love to use bendy straws
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Recent Examples of bendy
Their comfortable, bendy ear hooks all but guarantee a secure fit during workouts, even if your workouts involve handstands.
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Will Palmer, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
Perhaps the bendy, gravitating fabric of our universe itself emerges from whatever is happening on some lower-dimensional boundary.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
The subsequent mega-tsunami — one of the highest in recent history — set off a wave which became trapped in the bendy, narrow fjord for more than a week, sloshing back and forth every 90 seconds.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
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Will Palmer, Outside Online, 30 Oct. 2024
Perhaps the bendy, gravitating fabric of our universe itself emerges from whatever is happening on some lower-dimensional boundary.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
In this case, the bendy space-time fabric that surrounds us would be illusory, and the quantum particles on the boundary would be the real stuff of existence.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
The subsequent mega-tsunami — one of the highest in recent history — set off a wave which became trapped in the bendy, narrow fjord for more than a week, sloshing back and forth every 90 seconds.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bendy
Adjective
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These include widespread access to affordable childcare, generous parental leave shared between both parents, and flexible work arrangements.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Apr. 2025
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Be flexible with plans: Be patient and accept that last-minute cancellations may happen due to unpredictable flare-ups.—
Robert Burakoff,
Health,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These new projects incorporate traditional grates for removal of solid waste like plastic bottles but also use a multilayer filtration system that mimics the way forests and wetlands naturally purify water.—
Courtney Heath,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2025
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For instance, the near perfect rendition of human faces, animal hairs, object surfaces, often cause AI generated images to look plastic and unnatural.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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From summer through early fall hardy begonia displays loose floppy clusters of pink fragrant blooms visited by pollinators.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2025
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Jones had ordered multiple shoes from AliExpress, only to realize that their floppy construction and nearly non-existent grip created their own dangers.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Outside Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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