tender
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Reduce to medium-low heat and simmer for about six minutes, until the carrots are slightly tender.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The all-privates fund will tender for up to 3% of its shares each quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Monday's handover will begin with Starmer visiting Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation to the king before making a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Announcing his departure, Davies said Doctor Who's future was "unpredictable and new" and he was "excited to see what comes next", adding the programme's "big new future" involved it being put out for "competitive tender".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He munched on the bark of a tender green shoot, his cheek filled with the pulp and the juice.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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
Higher mediation we cannot find, tenderer love we cannot crave.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
By blurring the lines between fact and fiction, creator and creation, Chong probes some of the tenderest spots in the process of writing fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 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
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
An Incan princess felt the tenderest of passions for a Conquistador who had arrived with horses to subdue her nation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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