Rosa O'Flynn had acquired a rather elastic definition of honesty from her father.

He noted that the Chinese government had floated a more elastic definition of "one China," to include both the mainland and Taiwan.

That could be true enough," Campbell said, "if you have an elastic definition of entertainment.

Mr. Magaziner contends that these people were all regular or special Government employees, under rather elastic definitions of those terms.

An elastic definition of minority status leaves results unchanged.

Given China's elastic definition of secret, however, he said it was possible he had used restricted material.

But they have a very elastic definition of democracy: democracy for me, but not for you, because you're different.

There seems to have been a very elastic definition of "need".

But for the successful efforts of unbelievers in the past, I could not take so elastic a definition of Christianity as that.

When discussing the topic, creationists use "strategically elastic" definitions of micro- and macroevolution.