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
With post-Covid balance-sheet strengthening and cost discipline helping Qantas absorb this year’s spike in fuel costs and consumer softness, Creech sees potential for upward revisions to his conservative forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Because the armies were angered by Alexander’s softness, which I discussed above, after Alexander’s death they elected him to imperial power.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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
Mrs. Crawley accepted her kindness with thankfulness, and returned to some of the softnesses of life under her hand.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
What Jefferson said of Madison was true of the Virginia orators in general,—“soothing always the feelings of his adversaries by civilities and softnesses of expression.”
From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
But if it be given to a man "to maunder away his mind in softnesses," he cannot live otherwise than as nature has made him.
From An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope
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