delicate
Example Sentences
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Ten Hag felt he handled a delicate situation sympathetically, which included arranging for Sancho to work with coaches he knew in the Netherlands before his return to the fold.
From BBC
In Iraq, successive governments have long struggled to maintain a delicate balance between Tehran and Washington.
From Barron's
But he faces a delicate path to get there.
Absorbing this well-chosen album is a treat, and a chance to appreciate the delicate mortality that thrives in a place simultaneously enormous, eternal and ephemeral.
From Los Angeles Times
Wilson, who has a personal relationship with Hegseth that likely tempers his typical inflammatory rhetoric, was more delicate.
From Salon
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