tender
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Footage of the tender moment shows Sinèad in her dress and Leslie in his wedding suit slow dancing to This Dance, by Scott Thomas Laughridge.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
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
Simon was giving her the most tender, cow-eyed look.
From "The Long-Lost Home" 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
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
Though your colleen's heart be tender, a tenderer heart is near.
From The Divine Vision and Other Poems by A.E.
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
Some of the tenderest moments transpire between Yang and Mika, whose close bond suggests that a shared species can be less unifying than a common culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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
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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