tender
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It’s a tender, peppery example of how familiar flavors can make home feel a little closer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
He added Underbelly had won the tender to run the market "on quality and price" and had a "track record of delivering these markets successfully in lots of other places across the country".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
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
Now each forkful caught a little of everything: tender, almost creamy cabbage; browned edges; bright flecks of citrus; and individual crunchy crumbs that stayed crunchy.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
He stood a minute looking at her with new eyes, seeing what no one had ever seen before, the tender side of Amy’s character.
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
The natural anxiety which Mary felt for Darnley’s recovery, induced her to exhibit a tenderer interest in him than she had ever done before.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
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
"Want the tenderest chicken wings with a sticky glaze and glassy skin?"
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022
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
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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