delicate
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Delicate and old art will not be put at risk by light, Govan said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025
Appeared in the May 20, 2025, print edition as 'Push to Mine Ocean Riches Involves Delicate Science'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2025
For the last half-decade, she's been in romantic mode: Songs like Delicate, Lover, Invisible String and Lavender Haze were all inspired by her boyfriend of six years, the British actor Joe Alwyn.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
Boone Hogg, Logan Jugler and some friends were cracking jokes as they trekked toward Delicate Arch.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
“Well, I wouldn’t just start whacking at it or we might be dead before noon. We need to be careful. Delicate, precise hits on the clasps.”
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing delicate
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