Pliant

a pliant thread

pliant wax

Whether in its northern or southern home, the black-throated blue warbler builds its nest of bark, roots, and other pliant material, loose and rather bulky, in a variety of saplings, bushes, and weeds, but always a few inches or a few feet from the ground.

I muſt haue wanton Poets, pleaſant wits, Muſitians, that with touching of a ſtring May draw the pliant king which way I pleaſe: […]

[A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]

Yet there was pleasant sadness that became Meetly the gentle heart and pliant sense, In that same idlesse—gazing on that brook

[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear.

The person said one of the reasons the Chinese had been so pliant in development of a joint position on AI governance was that “playing nice” and acting as a “responsible partner” could help foster conversations about relaxation of US trade barriers later down the line.