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With a gentle shove, he guided the animal out of the trap and into an anesthesia chamber rigged from duct tape and PVC pipe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, a former girlfriend of Russell Brand described the defendant as "gentle" and "loving".

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

From a production angle, creating gentle comedy is “a tonal thing,” Spink said on a video call from the Yorkshire Dales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Grandma had died when I was a toddler, but from the little I remembered she’d been gentle and sweet with us.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The gentler Mr. Conlon clarifies that these “Navy SEALs are humanists. The most essential ingredient is a stance of gratitude and love toward the tradition.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

"Earlier studies often examined gentler bends or relied on external pressure, making this subtle effect difficult to separate," Iyengar said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

"Why?" she asked, with something just gentler than disdain.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

"People have come back to tell me that he had the gentlest soul, he's hard-working - and he was very hard-working right until his last breath."

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

Folky fingerpicking and new-agey thoughts about self-help make “Deeper Well” one of the gentlest but firmest rebuffs imaginable.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

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

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023

Bran could feel the flakes on his face, melting as they touched his skin like the gentlest of rains.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

In autumn, gentles, and later on brandlings and gentles, or better still, small red worms, “blood.”

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by G. Christopher Davies

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

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

Luckily, when I arrived here 20 years ago I was already so bitter and twisted from supporting the Boro for three decades that if anything the added sourness and torque have gentled my disposition.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010

Fitzsimmons had gentled plenty of miscreants, but he had no answers for Hard Tack.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The material doesn’t want sophisticated adults mucking about in it or, worse, gentling its hard edges for commercial consumption.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

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

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

“Lie still,” Miss Maggie scolded, hurrying to the bed and gentling him back against the pillow.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk