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
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
Now, “Luna” is tender and otherworldly, drenched in the high drama and glamour that San Cha so loves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
On Wednesday, it will sell July 2031 gilts by programmatic gilt tender and January 2028 gilts by ad-hoc gilt tender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was a bit tender, like a fresh bruise.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Perhaps it was a softer and tenderer phrase in that Call of Youth which she had heard a few minutes earlier.
From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman
Anthony's unexpected fling with Giuseppe is among the season's tenderest developments.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023
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
But so is a genuine sense of mutual love and desire, one that finds its tenderest expression in the incantatory quality of the lyrics and the quavering loveliness of the actors’ voices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
The choicest potatoes, the tastiest morsel, the tenderest bit of whatever there is, that’s Madame’s motto.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 2
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