tender
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Indeed, only Brazilian great Ronaldo claimed a Ballon d'Or at a more tender age.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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
More than a meta perspective or conventional behind-the-scenes doc, “Making Marie Antoinette” is a tender portrait of familial love from mother and daughter alike.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 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
But there have always been many Manets, and even the later, tenderer Manet coexists with an artist of deep political engagement and historical sweep.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
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
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 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
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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