polite
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Be polite: Don't just launch in with "I'm on annual leave".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
His tone remained polite, but he was panicking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Since he was expecting a response, I was forced into being uncharacteristically polite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
It smelled suspiciously of cow barn, too, although the children were too polite to mention it.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Bravo responded with a politer version in “Top Chef.”
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
An 18-year-old woman said ghosting was “a little bit politer way to reject someone than to directly say, ‘I do not want to chat with you.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2022
In fact, the politer our discourse is in general, the more dramatic the effect when breaking the rules of politeness becomes necessary.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018
She admires various classical and modern dancers and choreographers and works, but her own dancers enact a brash and pitiless system of movement that disdains and subverts politer forms.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015
It seemed politer to sit still and to speak when he was spoken to.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Ebert, also 39, is the politest, a kind force who, 17 years later, remains the new guy after Johnson and Knobbe formed the band a year before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
The 20-year-old said she had only positive interactions with some of the men who live at the hotel, who she describes as "the politest people".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
“The politest way is to enlist the aid of the flight attendants,” says Jodi RR Smith, an etiquette consultant.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
I’ll say one thing for “Knock at the Cabin”: M. Night Shyamalan may have made the politest — and the most provocative — home-invasion horror movie you’ll ever see.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
“I’m not sure how it’s possible that your outfit not only clashes but that it’s even louder than you,” Thorn said in her politest voice.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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