tender
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When cooked, japonica rice typically becomes soft, tender, and slightly sticky.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
For all the brutal methods they use to raise John, the most potent observations in this hour of “Lanterns” are tender.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In a statement issued through Alfred A Knopf, Gandhi says she wants this memoir "to be a testament of my heart's journey through the tender joys and dark despair that have marked my life".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She released it again as a duet with the tender country singer Vince Gill in 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Her voice sounded like a kitten’s, so tender and vulnerable.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
The higher you get in the scale of being, the grander, the nobler, and the tenderer you will become.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Better yet, the juices will have redistributed and you'll be looking at the tenderest, moistest turkey of your life.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2021
An Incan princess felt the tenderest of passions for a Conquistador who had arrived with horses to subdue her nation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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