tenderness
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She recites the names of the Mexicans Guthrie envisioned on the plummeting plane — Juan, Rosalita, Jesús and María — with tenderness, not pity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
What’s more, there’s an ease to all of these things — a soft tenderness that counterbalances the frigidity — as if such intensity comes casually.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
It is common to get some swelling, redness or tenderness where you have the injection.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
I grew up to see the tenderness with which Golding wrote Jack, and started to see him tenderly myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
It was a feeling, a tenderness in the sweetly savage brotherhood of athletics that came very seldom.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
Novel Study: The Crucible, Acts 3–4
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Crenshaw
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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