tender
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The Literary Review described it as, external "a work of uncanny beauty, tender and terrifying in equal parts", while the Telegraph said, external "you feel you're not so much reading as dreaming".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The notorious airport is a tender spot for Angelenos and tourists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Now each forkful caught a little of everything: tender, almost creamy cabbage; browned edges; bright flecks of citrus; and individual crunchy crumbs that stayed crunchy.
From Salon ● 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
He stood a minute looking at her with new eyes, seeing what no one had ever seen before, the tender side of Amy’s character.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
Yet through all this there was an indescribable thrill of happy possession and loving admiration of each other, touchingly sweet, and all the tenderer for the hint of passing years.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
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
"Want the tenderest chicken wings with a sticky glaze and glassy skin?"
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 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
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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