sensitive
Example Sentences
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Using their highly sensitive Pico-C method, the researchers mapped the 3D arrangement of the fruit fly genome during these early stages.
From Science Daily
Mothers are still overwhelmingly the primary caregivers in American families, and tend to be more sensitive to the challenges of child-rearing than older men, who may have been less intimately involved in its daily struggles.
From Los Angeles Times
At record prices, buyers are becoming more price sensitive, so short-term pullbacks or consolidation are to be expected.
It was Maggie and Kate who first became known to the Posts and others in Rochester as mediums— sensitive people able to communicate between the living and the dead.
From Literature
The same structural features that make these markets efficient prediction tools also make them vulnerable to abuse and manipulation—and to the transmission of sensitive signals to foreign adversaries.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
