tender
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Start with fully hard-boiled eggs: whites set, yolks cooked through but still tender.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
They moved on to a client tender and she was scribbling notes.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2026
The government plans to release land for a 300-400-bed hospital, its first tender for a private hospital in nearly two decades, the DBS analysts note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Made in the earnest style of a disease-of-the-week television movie without ever tipping over into winking irony, the film is both funny and tender.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
With each tender seedling that unfurled its small green leaf to my eager gaze, my excitement would rise and mount; winged, wondrous.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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