mild
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Muenster is less assertive but more accommodating: its mild butteriness stands beside the sauce without competing, and it softens agreeably in summer warmth without becoming stringy or oily.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Despite what people say in jury selection about their ability to remain fair, Weiner said, “Nobody in the town lives in a vacuum. She was unsympathetic, which is probably a mild word for it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Inflation data released two weeks ago had been mild enough to ease pressure on the Fed to raise rates at this meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
She told Bush: "You fooled a lot of people in Hull with your mild manner, when in fact you are a cruel conman. You use people's grief to fund your lifestyle."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Scientists have said that climate change is likely to bring wetter and milder winters.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The researchers emphasized that their work focuses only on serious muscle disorders that result in hospital admission or death, not the milder muscle aches and pains that some people experience.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
So far, this one has been milder — bitcoin was down a little more than 50% from its peak, compared with drawdowns of as much as 80% during previous declines, according to Ferraioli.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The National Park Service said it is using pumps to treat the water with what it called nanobubble ozone technology to kill the algae, along with hydrogen peroxide, which it said is milder than chlorine.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
A line had gone down in the last snowstorm, and the repairmen were going to take advantage of the milder evenings to set it right.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
“This is the mildest measure imaginable,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Eagerly they dig into platters of durian, carefully arranged from the mildest to the richest.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
At its mildest, an aircraft may only experience slight erratic changes in altitude, but at the severe end, turbulence can cause large abrupt changes in altitude and angle of the plane.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
Leasure called himself “the nicest, quietest, mildest guy you’ll ever want to meet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
She was usually just the mildest sort of person.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
