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tactful

[takt-fuhl] / ˈtækt fəl /


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He has found a way to be both tactful and transgressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

If I’m misreading the situation and you do really like him and want to address this, there are tactful ways to do so.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

It plans to do this through networking, or linking physical quantum systems together, rather than piling more qubits onto a chip—a tactful approach, seeing as a higher number of qubits typically correlates to more errors.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

Government spokesperson Nick Mangwana was more tactful in his response to the BBC.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

What was the use of Frank coming to see me, and us sitting in the morning-room together, Frank smoothing me down, Frank being tactful, Frank being kind?

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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