expansible
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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some of the lesser pools birds larger than the stork, bearing under the throat an expansible bag like that of the pelican, were seeking for prey.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
And while human desires were expansible, he doubted whether the demand for goods could possibly increase with sufficient rapidity to absorb the new productive capacities of the nation.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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