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An oft-forgotten British inventor is Alexander Parkes, who invented the mouldable material that we today call plastic.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2013

A national spirit breeds true only on its native soil; when transplanted to a new land it becomes plastic and mouldable.

From Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919 by Keith, Arthur

Manage yourself sensibly, and since you know that you are in a very mouldable, impressionable stage, it stands to reason that you had better steadily read classics now, to form and strengthen your mind.

From Stray Thoughts for Girls by Soulsby, Lucy H. M.

They are now soft, plastic, mouldable; a tone will stir their young souls to the very depths, a look will affect them for ever. 

From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles