tender
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Besides employees at the big AI labs, there are those working for companies like Databricks and Stripe who are taking part in tender offers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
With A.B. on bass, Suzette on drums and Selena as the tender vocalist, the group would eventually sign their first recording contract with Freddie Records in 1984.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Garfunkel’s tender folk couldn’t be farther from the chrome-coated zeitgeist of the turn of the last century.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Having secured up to six hydrogen-ready gas turbines and generators with combined capacity of 4.2 GW from Mitsubishi Power, the utility company is well positioned to win the tender, the analyst says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nok blew on the tender skin as she walked out of the studio and down the hall toward her room.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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 higher you get in the scale of being, the grander, the nobler, and the tenderer you will become.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In one of the novel’s tenderest details, “stray dogs lounged in the shade, and as we walked by, Jacobo spoke to them in baby talk.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The tenderest and meatiest of all ribs are the baby back, which have nothing to do with babies, but everything to do with backs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
"Want the tenderest chicken wings with a sticky glaze and glassy skin?"
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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