gentle
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Sound therapy uses gentle background noise to draw attention away from the ringing or buzzing sensation.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
He’s a little too gentle to be on planet Earth.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The family of Gayson, from Somerset, said he was "an extremely kind and gentle family man".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
But CEO Lip-Bu Tan provided a gentle reminder of the strength of demand for CPUs in his keynote speech at the Computex conference in Taiwan Tuesday.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
By the age of nine, she’d learned to glide to a gentle stop.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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