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tender

adjective as in fragile, soft

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adjective as in young, inexperienced

adjective as in painful, sore

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Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven.

Despite the seeming resistance to his nomination, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shared that Gaetz has already tendered his resignation from the House.

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She followed “Woman King” with “Bob Marley: One Love,” starring as Rita Marley, because she was seeking something that was tender, emotional and physically calm.

And there is in a lot of different moments in the show, too, directly coming after those very real, tender moments, the feeling of failure.

Kapadia includes a tender love scene between the two, a moment she sees as “everything in support of romance and this girl’s desires — and also freedom.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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