tactful
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As with age-related merchandise at the drugstore, the stories are available to anyone, but they will have special application for those who have reached what the excessively tactful used to call “a certain age.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
If I’m misreading the situation and you do really like him and want to address this, there are tactful ways to do so.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
It plans to do this through networking, or linking physical quantum systems together, rather than piling more qubits onto a chip—a tactful approach, seeing as a higher number of qubits typically correlates to more errors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
I want to say this in a very tactful way, but the risk of doing this kind of show is that there is a point, I believe, of diminishing returns when we talk about food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
It took a lot of tactful correspondence before Kepler was able to soothe Tycho’s offended feelings and restore friendly relations with the great astronomer.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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