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n. - Adaptability of mind or character; The property of being easily bent without breaking.

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  • He was valued for his reliability and pliability
  • At the risk of pop-psychoanalyzing, something Limbaugh does every day on his show, let me suggest that his pliability is rooted in a strange insecurity.
  • Through its pliability, which is almost unlimited, it produces in equal measure absurd comparisons and very original inventions.
  • As Diehl notes, Obama's "pliability" did not go unnoticed.
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