softness

Example Sentences

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Softness in the labor market comes against a backdrop of heightened uncertainty for Canadian employers and restrained hiring intentions, as the recent oil-price shock compounds concerns about trade policy and U.S. tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Softness in the labor market could encourage the Federal Reserve to slow down interest rate hikes, experts said.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

Softness in style is a response to that.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Softness was all but missing from Boys for Pele; at once alien and archaic, the harpsichord is not capable of softness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2018

To give a Grandeur to the Opening Lawn; And pleasing Softness, to the solemn Dawn; To join the vivid, with the vernal Bloom; Where scarce a Sun Beam wanders thro' the Gloom.

From The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry by Anonymous