tender
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That's because Sir Keir Starmer would need to formally tender his resignation to King Charles III at Buckingham Palace.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Under German takeover rules, it needed to launch a full shareholder tender to go above that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
If there’s a song that proves Madonna’s own music is more compelling than any biopic could’ve been, it’s this one — the quietest, most tender cut on the album.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Leaving it to another day to lay out guideposts for data-related warrants risked leaving Americans’ privacy to the tender mercies of zealous law enforcement and profit-minded corporations.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“A large sheaf, but I know there’s room in your heart for it, Marmee dear,” added Meg’s tender voice.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
No sister shall be tenderer, no lover more devoted than I will be to you.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine
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
The key is getting the freshest, tenderest crabs you can find.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022
"Want the tenderest chicken wings with a sticky glaze and glassy skin?"
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
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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