tender
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The confused, tender young witness to all this is Dovilė, trying to make sense of a war-torn and contradictory world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The latest tender covers more than 1,200 housing units, according to Israeli NGO Peace Now.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Here we meet Kelly Macdonald, suppressing her Scottish accent as tough but tender Sheriff Kerry, asserting her jurisdictional rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The tender tale of a couple who tell their story through the various bits of paper they accumulate became even more emotional following the death of Oliver in 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Her smile was so tender, and the feeling in her voice was so warm and genuine, that Penelope felt all her newfound professionalism melt into a puddle.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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
But older, tenderer, more familiar associations, mastered all the others when we heard his voice again—the faithful voice that had warned and comforted us so long in public and in private.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The tenderest connection may just be between Cyrano and Will Hochman’s Christian, whose callowness isn’t quite what it seems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 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
The first notes of the suite he heard were from “Psalm,” its last movement, the tenderest part: a praise poem, addressed directly to God, that Coltrane had set to music and played through his saxophone.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
So the year rolled round, and at midsummer there came to Meg a new experience, the deepest and tenderest of a woman’s life.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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