pliable

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• Steam or griddle your tortillas until they’re soft and pliable.

• At a Wednesday news conference, Turner and allies warned that the campaign against her was funded by corporate-friendly conservatives who wanted a pliable member of Congress.

• About 10 minutes before assembling the pie, remove the second disk of pie crust dough from the refrigerator to allow it to soften and become more pliable.

• Taking inspiration from marine animals that gracefully maneuver through their surroundings—the octopus is a favorite—scientists tapped silicone and other pliable materials to build soft structures that can stretch and move with ease.

• Over time, the theory goes, inflammation causes trouble—plaques and less pliable arterial walls.

• Another notable region is nicknamed “Pigeon Valley” for the thousands of bird nesting holes dug into the pliable rock.

• Their own moral values must be so certain and positive that those younger and more pliable will be influenced by a fine example.

• Memory and history are funny: generally reliable, they're also shockingly pliable, and often wrong on details.

• Could the West rely on the more or less faceless Libyan opposition, a rabble in arms, to be so pliable?

• It was soft and pliable, and of such a texture that it could be washed easier than anything else, either paper or cloth.

• He showed his shrewdness in thus dealing with this and deeply affectionate nature.