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flexible

When something is flexible, it can bend. The thin wood stick was so flexible that it would bend but not break. By extension, the word is used as a metaphor. For example, when a person or thing is flexible, they can change. Jim was very flexible and enjoyed every new experience when he travelled. I think we can make working hours much more flexible. They used to treat everyone the same but now take a more flexible approach.

flexible

capable of being changed flexible schedules able to flex; able to bend easily slim flexible birches bending and snapping back readily without breaking (= elastic) able to adjust readily to different conditions an adaptable person a flexible personality an elastic clause in a contract (= compromising) making or willing to make concessions loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet

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Simple sentences

Be more flexible.
The education system needs to be more flexible.
You must be flexible in your thinking.
Our thinking is flexible.
I have a flexible schedule.
She's very flexible.
He's very flexible.
Esperanto sentence structure (i.e., word order) is extremely flexible and diverse.
Tom is flexible.
We're very flexible.
I can be very flexible.
In living through these uncertain times, it is necessary to be flexible and not be a captive to traditional values.
After lunch, the gentleman finished his cup of coffee and sat down on the sofa, placing behind him a pillow - the type found in Russian taverns that instead of soft, flexible wool, would be filled with something alarmingly similar to bricks and cobbles.
I'm flexible.
You're very flexible.
I think a translator may venture to be somewhat flexible.
You have to be flexible.
We are flexible.

Movie subtitles

He could move if it had flexible joints.
Look, If we design it like this, on the principle of a diving suit with flexible joints here, yet capable of holding oxygen inside I think we'll have something.
He gave me a brand-new Flexible Flyer sled last year.
You'll be flexible, won't you?
Are you flexible enough to reconsider a perhaps hastily formed opinion?
I'm flexible.
Their eye is flexible, like a large camera lens. Yes.
One foot on the ground, arms wide open, and stay flexible.
At any rate, his morality is as flexible as ours.
Of course I am flexible.
Her body was so flexible!
Usually, older women. with less flexible joints have this sort of trouble.
It occurs to me we need someone more flexible.
I'm very flexible. I can go either way.
Get flexible!
Science never has known for sure just what the function of silicon was, but there is one theory that silicon is what helps make the skin flexible.
Flexible.
Flexible payment terms. golf, hotels, casino, theatre. a spa, a fountain of youth.
The problem with people like you is that you don't have a flexible mind.
Ambitious, but flexible and precise.
Mr. Nurdlinger, we are quite flexible.
Mr. Nurdlinger, we're very flexible.
We're very flexible.
It's light, flexible, strong, perfectly balanced.
More flexible in the wrist.
Now, we're quite flexible here.
In wartime, you have to be flexible.
I'm very flexible in these matters.
Mother, you aren't flexible at all.
Keep flexible, kitty.
It has to remain flexible for that reason.
I only meant that under certain circumstances, when other people are disturbed. we could afford to be a little flexible about it!
Their eye is flexible, like a large camera lens.
The human body is the most flexible instrument in the world.
Usually older women with less flexible joints have this sort of trouble.
It occurs to me, that we need someone more flexible.
However, an extremely flexible and pliant response to new learning situations is highly marked.
The pedalling develops the muscles to keep the leg muscles flexible.
Both muscles in the biceps are given a work-out to sustain flexible arms.

News and current affairs

NATO has been flexible since its inception.
Ironically, flexible exchange rates help the very country that caused the crisis.
Such a tax is the most flexible and market-friendly approach, and would have the least impact on economic growth.
The super-flexible US economy keeps managing to produce more with less.
The US labor market is more flexible than Europe's, enabling it to react more nimbly to the ever shifting sands of globalization.
Yet, the 15 member states may compensate for their collective failure of nerve by opening up easier options for flexible or multi-speed integration.
In other words, the new class divisions run less between the rich and the poor than between educated metropolitan elites and less sophisticated, less flexible, and, in every sense, less connected provincials.
Shared water calls for flexible, continuous, cooperative water management, based on agreed-upon rights and responsibilities, as well as ongoing monitoring and dispute resolution mechanisms.
Argentina should have been encouraged to fix a more flexible exchange rate system, or at least an exchange rate more reflective of the country's trading patterns.
Perhaps when we have one world government, it will make sense to have one world currency. But, even setting aside the equilibrating benefits of flexible currencies, the prospect of a single, omnipotent central bank is not particularly appealing.
In principle, with flexible labor markets, migration creates welfare gains for all countries.
The best solution is to make Western labor markets flexible by opening the system of collective wage bargaining, dismantling labor market regulation, and reforming the welfare state.
If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.
The coming accession of ten new members to the EU would be made much simpler were Europe to find its own equally flexible system.
Although it is right that the Stability and Growth Pact has become more flexible in these extraordinary times, its rules did secure a successful first decade for the euro.
A country with a flexible currency can achieve that by allowing the exchange rate to depreciate.
A long, painful period of high unemployment runs counter to what most experts believed the flexible US economic model would ever produce.
One is the decision by the United States to reconsider its policy of sanctions, becoming more flexible while remaining true to its values and interests.
All of this is part of the transatlantic community's continuing transformation from a set of organizations designed to defend territory against a known aggressor to something more flexible and dynamic.
Precedents exist for this. NATO has been flexible since its inception.
Chief among these changes has been the adoption, in most countries, of flexible exchange rates and reduction of external debt, particularly government debt.

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