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In most cases, the cognitive decline of her clients is slower and more gentle, and family members step into help and then gradually take over.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s Morello half-speaking, half-singing against a gentle piano melody that emotionally underscores the song’s message of quiet defiance: “Maybe you can save me/Maybe you can’t/Maybe you can liberate me/Nah, I’ll take care of that.”

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Keep your skincare routine simple You need three basics: a gentle cleanser, a fragrance-free moisturiser and a broad-spectrum sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

These first two games were supposed to be the soft start, of at least a relatively gentle ramp-up to the thorny part of the schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Ma, who had always been so deferential, so gentle, had found a way out of a bad situation and had executed it.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

For example, perhaps increased closeness to parents facilitated by smartphones or gentler parenting styles leads young adults in their 20s and early 30s to be more comfortable living with their folks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Cornell offered a gentler approach and a more capacious central recommendation: To find their footing in the age of artificial intelligence, universities must graduate students with a broader, more human-centered judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Repairs start with a digger light enough not to cause fresh damage, which pulls the bare peat back to a gentler slope and folds the vegetation over it.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

But she acknowledges that her distinct approach — kinder, gentler, more tearful — is rooted in her particular skill set: “It’s similar to how I responded to being led in kitchens,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

It's much gentler terrain than the rest of Arabia Terra, and the far end looks like a smooth ascent out of the valley.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Leave it to Kelly Reichardt, who turned Michelle Williams into a seething sculptor with frenemy issues in “Showing Up,” to make the gentlest, most self-deprecating heist movie imaginable.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

Ms Darwiche's friends described her as "the gentlest and kindest soul we knew."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

“You have the gentlest voice,” Sonia tells him.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

His brand, created with veterinary dermatologists, aims to use the gentlest chemicals it can, and avoids artificial fragrances.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023

In her gentlest but firmest way, she gathered up the surviving demons and set them in work crews to clearing the mounds from which people were calling.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Coconut milk gentles the green-chile heat in the thick, creamy sauce.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Mallory Ortberg: That’s all for this week, gentles.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2016

Saturday's conditions at Whistling Straits led to outstanding scores, as gentles breezes off Lake Michigan, combined with greens that Phil Mickelson described as "pristine, beautiful, large and receptive," produced a festival of birdies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2015

And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he had gone with him that night to the banquet-hall, and there had served him, and, after, had attended him with some lords and gentles.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

It seems somehow like he’s gentled us into it with benevolent trickery — as if he’d said, “Look! Over there,” and while we were distracted ripped a Band-Aid off our skin.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

On the phone from Britain, Wainwright speaks in quick, declarative sentences, gentled a bit by her Yorkshire accent with its long A’s, round O’s and forgiving consonants, but still quite direct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

I don’t want to be gentled, like I’m something wild and alarming.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2016

After nearly 20 years as a gallery destination, and despite a spate of sleek new apartment buildings, it is still nothing but art, and it still feels surprisingly raw — gentrified but not especially gentled.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2011

“No. I have handled him and gentled him. Also, he’s not feeling very fierce just now because of the long journey he’s had, and the operation. Do you like him?”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Like a grade-school teacher, the matrix provides a physical framework that supports and organizes the cells, gentling and channeling them to harmoniously create a functional tissue.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Canfield’s debut feature is infused with its own measure of that gentling spirit.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

These handling and gentling exercises will essentially be like playing doctor with your puppy.

From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022

This gentling spares many vulnerable kids years of suffering.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013

Gradually we drifted off, the whispers of breeze-blown branches and the breathing of horses gentling us to sleep.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs