softness
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In addition to the headline figure, there was softness everywhere in the report.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Chelsea have previously suffered from indiscipline, a perceived softness defending set-pieces and, perhaps most importantly, a lack of leadership and dressing-room culture.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Their crunch interrupts the softness of the turkey, cheese and sauces; their salt seasons the sandwich; and their pucker sharpens the lemon mayo and smoky-sweet romesco.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
The show at the American Folk Art Museum, curated by Emelie Gevalt and Caroline Culp, opens with a symphony in softness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The sound suggests the softness of the thin oniony pages, how they would feel under the fingers.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
His touch was special, even in introductions and final flourishes; he built waves within his playing, revealing softnesses in his sound even while working intensely.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2013
The authors have not entirely evaded its treacherous softnesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The circumstances being such as they were, there should be no family love, no fraternal sports, no softnesses, no mercy.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
The softnesses of lingering youth had disappeared, stricken out by the hard, straight lines of gravity.
From The Inner Shrine by Basil King
There were new lines in the face, Rose could well believe; in spite of those appealing softnesses of the eyes, it was a face cut in bronze.
From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown
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