softness
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Whatever the case, the softness in hiring is glaringly evident in the slowdown in wage growth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Given the overall softness of the labour market, the likelihood of two Fed hikes is going lower,” he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
United, Southwest, Allegiant, and Frontier all reported strong travel demand or said they saw no signs of softness in the market, even as the cost of fuel drives up ticket prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I don't know whether it's softened me, but it certainly made me more aware of my own innate softness."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
I reached for the glass and bottle, and carefully, on my knees, with bent head, crawled to the farthest wall Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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His touch was special, even in introductions and final flourishes; he built waves within his playing, revealing softnesses in his sound even while working intensely.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2013
The authors have not entirely evaded its treacherous softnesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You charge my letter with a thousand faults, it is short, it is cold, and wants those usual softnesses that gave them all their welcome, and their graces.
From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn
The ideas, the softnesses, the laws of the valleys were far away from them; they were face to face with realities.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
My spirit is rather unbendable as yet to the softnesses of these strange words, stiff for want of use, so forgive a tendency to go round them.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim