tender
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Nov. 20: By the deadline, teams must tender contracts to 40-man roster players under team control who have not yet signed deals for the upcoming season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Footage of the tender moment shows Sinèad in her dress and Leslie in his wedding suit slow dancing to This Dance, by Scott Thomas Laughridge.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
The sorrow is intimate as he recalls tender moments with his child and expansive as he grieves for the dead of the Civil War and ponders his responsibility for all of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The line tender holds the line above the surface.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 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 first notes of the suite he heard were from “Psalm,” its last movement, the tenderest part: a praise poem, addressed directly to God, that Coltrane had set to music and played through his saxophone.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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