soft
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Or you might be one yourself - attached to a pillow that's soft enough to settle into but robust enough that it's not bunched into a ball by morning.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yamamoto then got a soft grounder out of Fernando Tatís Jr. But it was too soft, giving Tatís time to reach first before third baseman Max Muncy could get off a throw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The contrast is somewhat similar to the difference between an MRI, which can emphasize soft tissues such as muscle, and an X ray, which is especially useful for viewing dense structures such as bone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Treasury auctioned $70 billion of five-year notes at a yield of 5.033%, the highest since an auction held in June 2006 which had a high yield of 5.203%, and amid indications of soft demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The velvet was soft and the inner lining held a secret pocket, which Nine had explained was for emergency food, because if human children didn’t eat constantly, they became ferocious beasts.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"Oil has pushed higher, Asian equities are softer, and suddenly the brief Friday reprieve in global fixed income looks more like an intermission than the end of the show."
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Mr. Ueda on Friday tried to reset expectations with a commitment to stay on guard against inflation even if price rises slow below the 2% target owing to softer energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
OTTAWA—Canadian inflation steadied last month as rising travel costs and a rebound in rents countered a softer jump in gasoline prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“One of the biggest risks would have been a softer CPI that left the market in that ‘unhinged moment’ in rates,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
Does a “shorter” or smaller bump equal softer or a lower pitch or both?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Rent cooled modestly, rising 3.5% in May versus a year earlier, the softest rise since January 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
It gives you a hearing number, the softest speech sound you can hear in each ear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Whatever these men think they’re proving, what they are actually demonstrating is they are the softest, saddest boys alive, incapable of understanding what real courage looks like.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2026
There are six compounds in all for the season, from the hardest, the C1, to the softest, the C6.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
“They got lacy wings, and they’s all dressed up in quilted robes....The softest, prettiest colors, Will! Lordy, they keep a-comin’.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
