"molded" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a past tense form of the verb "mold," which means "shape or form something." Example sentence: The clay had been molded into the shape of a bowl.
Every new medium introduced since the invention of the printing press has molded our minds in different ways.
He is right that "laws profoundly mold culture," and the sort of culture America's marijuana laws have molded is one in which blacks are four times likelier than whites to be arrested for the same (victimless) crime; in which those arrested for that victimless crime lose their driver's licenses, their eligibility for public housing, employment opportunities and indeed their futures.
He is molded and shaped by the diversity of other experiences into some form of the whole man"."Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life" is at the International Centre of Photography until January 6th.
"Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it".
Drum lenses are also molded in plastic.
The contemporary topography has been largely molded by running water, waves, ocean currents, winds, changes in sea level, and the wearing away of limestone rocks by solution.
Their products (jugs, tankards, and the like), made from the 15th century to the present day, are molded, stamped with dies, and sometimes incised.
Vulcanized silicone rubber is prepared in two principal forms: (1) as room-temperature-vulcanizing (RTV) elastomers, which are low-molecular-weight liquids that are cast or molded into desired shapes and then interlinked at room temperature, and (2) high-temperature-vulcanizing (HTV) elastomers, which are higher-molecular-weight gums that are mixed and processed like other elastomers.
