How to Use plasticity in a Sentence

plasticity

noun

• Here there were no straight lines: the plasticity of the salt caused walls to bulge, floors to hump, ceilings to bow.
  — Gwyneth Cravens, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2007
• This is a critical part of the rewiring process known as brain plasticity, which allows the mind to learn and adapt, Barrett said.
  — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Nearly equal to that was the desire to find the plasticity in language, that which can bend and flow with a character’s thoughts and feelings.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• The new study, Katz said, hints that playing with this plasticity could be a way that new movement behaviors evolve.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• Salamanders seem to have a hold on plasticity, with the ability to morph and change very quickly.
  — Sarah Jay, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• The finding doesn’t just provide insights into the nature of the brain’s plasticity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• The best cake cones will have a bit of tapioca flour in them, which gives a little bit of plasticity that can almost come across as staleness.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the way in which Ford constantly deploys the plasticity of the medium for the sake of style elsewhere calls into question these vérité moments.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2017
• The past year has revealed the plasticity of our social conventions.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Thus, although dreams have long been the subject of song and story, they may be better understood as the strange lovechild of brain plasticity and the rotation of the planet.
  — David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
• From the start, the Paris agreement was designed to have the plasticity Trump seemed to be seeking by talking about some kind of renegotiation.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
• Scientists have a name for it when a person deficient in one of the five senses sees the others sharpen: cross-modal plasticity.
  — Gordon Jones, New York Times, 11 May 2021
• This vessel plasticity is the reason your face becomes flushed in the snow (and why some people encounter unwanted shrinkage in a cold pool).
  — Kareem Clark, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2021
• For example, in people, too much plasticity at the wrong time is linked to brain disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Sarah Degenova Ackerman, The Conversation, 12 Apr. 2021
• Sperm meets egg and a human is set up to grow, but the science shows that our environments — and the plasticity of our brains — can have a huge effect on our temperament.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
• Scientists have long recognized that this plasticity is stronger in the brains of young people than those of older people.
  — chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Look at the spectacle of this woman’s delusion, the series seems to say, lingering on the frozen plasticity of Jericho’s features.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2019
• McKay lands a few clean arrows in all this, not least with Rylance's spooky plasticity (the banality of evil, indeed).
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• The plasticity of human beings has been of pressing concern to novelists for hundreds of years.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• And your brain’s ability to change its neuron wiring, also called plasticity, lasts your entire life.
  — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 16 July 2024
• By mimicking a minimum wage increase through tax law, the proposal is meant to point out to senators the plasticity of the budgetary rules.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• One of the most remarkable features of human nature is its plasticity.
  — Adrian Woolfson, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• One of the striking indications of brain plasticity came from scanning the brain activity of people who had been blind from birth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• That means before age 65, while the heart retains plasticity and the ability to remodel itself.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• Much more research is needed to gain a better understanding of the balance between extra body part use, brain plasticity, and motor control of both the body and the device.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• But new results suggest that that plasticity may go even deeper than scientists have thought.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
• It’s during the first part of their life cycle that phenotypic plasticity can occur.
  — Starre Vartan, National Geographic, 26 June 2019
• Think of this synaptic plasticity as the mechanism by which the strength of information flow in these tiny gaps among brain cells is manipulated.
  — Husseini Manji, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021
• Brain scans showed the two-eye approach produced greater mental plasticity and overall improved vision.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• Adaptive plasticity has emerged as an explanation for how animals can function on less sleep.
  — Big Think, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024