delicate
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Striking the right balance in professional attire can be a delicate combination of expressing personal style and “reading the room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
There were only arid steppes in sight when a small plane took off from an airport in southern Kazakhstan, embarking on a delicate mission: bringing rain for the scorched earth below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I was always amazed at how she tore delicate shreds of meat from her catch and then so tenderly fed her chicks,” said Long Beach resident Erica Motamed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The difficulty is that adding such layers to atomically thin semiconductors can disturb the delicate interface between the materials.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Her cheeks had shifted from gray to a delicate olive, her eyes to their dark brown.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing delicate
The Diary of Anne Frank
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