tender
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Monday's handover will begin with Starmer visiting Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation to the king before making a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
When he speaks of Likho, he speaks with a tender cadence and dignified countenance, as if he were his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Announcing his departure, Davies said Doctor Who's future was "unpredictable and new" and he was "excited to see what comes next", adding the programme's "big new future" involved it being put out for "competitive tender".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because they arrive fully trimmed, they can go straight into a low, slow smoke or a gentle braise, where the collagen breaks down into gelatin and the meat becomes tender enough to shred.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Nietzsche said that solitude makes us tougher toward ourselves and more tender toward others.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
Luke Ross had been her playmate till a tenderer attachment had sprang up as girlhood passed into womanhood, and the boy became a thoughtful man.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville
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 key is getting the freshest, tenderest crabs you can find.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022
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
The father’s tenderest feelings were supposed to make his voice quaver as he said,
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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