as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
the kids love to use bendy straws
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Recent Examples of bendy
From the bendy palm trees of Thunderbird 2's iconic launch sequence to epic set-pieces featuring collapsing skyscrapers and doomed hypersonic jets, this kids' show could go toe-to-toe with the big screen's best.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
At the time, the character was 17 and owed his bendy superpowers to eating a mythical fruit.
—Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Flex—which has bendy dividers and comes with a little snack/condiment container.
—Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Instead of copying your yoga instructor or your wildly bendy friend, try the seven moves listed below.
—Jenny McCoy, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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Gently clean the seal regularly baking soda or dish soap to remove mold and keep it flexible.—
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With more than $2 million raised through crowdfunding, Zero Zero Robotics says AQUA has drawn strong interest from watersport enthusiasts looking for a more durable and flexible aerial filming tool.—
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Thousands had set up makeshift homes made of little more than cloth, asbestos, and plastic sheets.—
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The task force usually passes out kits that include fentanyl detection strips inside plastic sandwich bags, along with sterile water and little paper condiment cups, which are used to perform the test; illicit pills should be crushed first before testing.—
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This one’s floppy collar drew me in, while the $25 price kept me on the page.—
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As a remedy, researchers have created a soft mechanical metamaterial—a rubber sheet cut into a repeating pattern—that can perform matrix-vector multiplication using floppy modes, or motions that require almost no energy.—
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“Bendy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bendy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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