How to Use plasticity in a Sentence

plasticity

noun
  • One way to improve your brain plasticity is to try new things.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • That body had a magical suppleness, a plasticity that was rarely seen in a dancer.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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 brain and body are in constant conversation, and plasticity means your wiring is never fixed.
    — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But new results suggest that that plasticity may go even deeper than scientists have thought.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The past year has revealed the plasticity of our social conventions.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • And your brain’s ability to change its neuron wiring, also called plasticity, lasts your entire life.
    — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of the most remarkable features of human nature is its plasticity.
    — Adrian Woolfson, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The finding doesn’t just provide insights into the nature of the brain’s plasticity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • This happens, in part, because alcohol causes changes in the brain (called plasticity).
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This property, called synaptic plasticity, meant the researchers could train their acoustic synapse to perform a range of tasks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • Brain scans showed the two-eye approach produced greater mental plasticity and overall improved vision.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • The plasticity of human beings has been of pressing concern to novelists for hundreds of years.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • These structures may be key to understanding neural plasticity in the human brain.
    — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • Beige fat and metabolic plasticity Adding further complexity to fat’s role in weight loss are beige fat cells.
    — Claudio Villanueva, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Anx and Cass fear melding with what’s around them and the film’s very aesthetic keeps us vividly aware of the plasticity of their surroundings.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 7 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In the central nervous system, plasticity is related to time.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 3 Nov. 2018
  • The brain plasticity theory may explain why infants and young children, whose brains are still developing, need so much sleep.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • This process is mainly thought to result from synaptic plasticity, or changes to the trillions of connections between neurons.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Neither drug packs a psychedelic punch, but both molecules promote plasticity in the brain.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 1 Oct. 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
  • But proof that missing or miswired human brain connections can grow again—what neuroscientists call plasticity—has so far been thin on the ground.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • That the gulls appear to be proliferating is a function of their high behavioral plasticity.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2022

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