sensitive

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"It's actually a bigger issue than people realise," says Duncan, from Devon, whose teenage daughter is autistic and has sensory processing disorder, which means she is more sensitive to how clothing feels against her skin.

From BBC

“Where Charles was sensitive and thoughtful, Andrew was macho, confident and extroverted,” wrote Andrew Lownie, who chronicled the prince’s life in a recent book called “Entitled.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Morgan call it a pro-cyclical rotation, meaning that it’s driven by economically sensitive stocks.

From Barron's

Another possibility was that existing health problems could make the brain more sensitive to pollution.

From Science Daily

Mr. Brundage has given us a sensitive and important study of a strangely neglected topic, whose implications reach far beyond the Civil War battlefields of a century and a half ago.

From The Wall Street Journal