tender
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Sam Adams makes the case that Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary is about something more tender than just matters of truth and reality.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Indeed, only Brazilian great Ronaldo claimed a Ballon d'Or at a more tender age.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
More than a meta perspective or conventional behind-the-scenes doc, “Making Marie Antoinette” is a tender portrait of familial love from mother and daughter alike.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
On Wednesday, it will sell July 2031 gilts by programmatic gilt tender and January 2028 gilts by ad-hoc gilt tender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender solicitude, and when he had finished with his penitent said:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Because they are made with un-hydrogenated fats that are liquid at room temperature, they have a moister, tenderer texture than butter cakes.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021
Oftentimes, if you scratch a gearhead’s chrome-plated obsession, what you uncover is something tenderer than a Proustian remembrance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Out of the darkness of these ugly times, and the tenderer moments conjured in a family of seven children, Butterworth weaves an enthralling tapestry of melodrama, wryness and suspense.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018
Make your chicken work for you Two big benefits of meat-pounding: tenderer, speedier meat.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018
The greatest frost damage occurs in the spring because the tenderer crops are growing then.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph, “High Road” The year’s tenderest butt-rock ballad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Asked about his college town, Kuzma closes his eyes and purses his lips as though he has just had a bite of the tenderest, most buttery steak he has ever eaten.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022
Better yet, the juices will have redistributed and you'll be looking at the tenderest, moistest turkey of your life.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2021
So the year rolled round, and at midsummer there came to Meg a new experience, the deepest and tenderest of a woman’s life.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 2
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