See supple on Wiktionary
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"text": "Global supply chains, meanwhile, have grown both tighter and more supple since the late 1990s—the result of improving information technology and of freer trade—making routine work easier to relocate.",
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"word": "souple"
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"ref": "1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 82–83:",
"text": "My hands are supple and small. A woman in a bread shop once said to me: “You have the hands for making fine little pastries.”",
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"text": "If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.",
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "гъвкав"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "notkea"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "souple"
},
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "geschmeidig"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "hajlékony"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "kōngehengehe"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "bøyelig"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "sople"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "plegadís"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
"word": "suplu"
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
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"sense": "pliant, easy to bend",
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"word": "malleabile"
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:",
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"text": "The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View, / But long Tradition makes it paſs for true) / Did firſt the Rigour of their Kind expel, / And ſuppled into ſoftneſs, as they fell; […]",
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"ref": "1693, [John Locke], “§78”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:",
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"(transitive) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient."
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to make or become supple",
"word": "hajlékonnyá tesz/válik"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to make or become supple",
"word": "betör"
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