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  • adverb In a malleable manner; flexibly.

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malleable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • What they see as the great stable truths can be written down on vellum or carved into stone rather than swilling malleably across handheld screens.

    Time management: sustain your soul with structure 2012

  • But for high seriousness combined with architectonic treatment on a great scale; for sublimity of conception, working malleably within a structure which is simple, severe, complete, having a beginning, a middle and an end; for diction never less than adequate, constantly right and therefore not seldom superb, as theme, thought and utterance soar up together and make one miracle, I can name no single book of the Bible to compare with Job.

    X. On Reading the Bible (III) 1920

  • But for high seriousness combined with architectonic treatment on a great scale; for sublimity of conception, working malleably within a structure which is simple, severe, complete, having a beginning, a middle and an end; for diction never less than adequate, constantly right and therefore not seldom superb, as theme, thought and utterance soar up together and make one miracle, I can name no single book of the Bible to compare with "Job."

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • In this article, following a brief review of studies that demonstrate the surprising degree to which brain processes are malleably shaped by cultural tools and practices, the authors discuss cultural variation in brain processes involved in self-representations, cognition, emotion and motivation.

    Integral Options Cafe 2010

  • Over the last two decades, a number of researchers have argued that psychological processes are malleably shaped to a degree that is far greater than was previously considered possible by exposure to, and active engagement in, socio-cultural environments.

    Integral Options Cafe 2010

  • "other" as part of a binary configuration, but rather they malleably acted to distance themselves from a constantly shifting group of others who offered different challenges at different times.

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

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