tender
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Reduce to medium-low heat and simmer for about six minutes, until the carrots are slightly tender.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Monday's handover will begin with Starmer visiting Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation to the king before making a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Announcing his departure, Davies said Doctor Who's future was "unpredictable and new" and he was "excited to see what comes next", adding the programme's "big new future" involved it being put out for "competitive tender".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
In the same year as “Donnie Darko,” Chase lent her voice to the American dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s tender “Spirited Away,” voicing its protagonist Chihiro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Helen and Tillie exchange glances, wondering why I’m kicking up this tender topic again.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Because they are made with un-hydrogenated fats that are liquid at room temperature, they have a moister, tenderer texture than butter cakes.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021
But there have always been many Manets, and even the later, tenderer Manet coexists with an artist of deep political engagement and historical sweep.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
Out of the darkness of these ugly times, and the tenderer moments conjured in a family of seven children, Butterworth weaves an enthralling tapestry of melodrama, wryness and suspense.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018
Make your chicken work for you Two big benefits of meat-pounding: tenderer, speedier meat.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018
Tuscany has sent us down no tenderer story.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In one of the novel’s tenderest details, “stray dogs lounged in the shade, and as we walked by, Jacobo spoke to them in baby talk.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Some of the tenderest moments transpire between Yang and Mika, whose close bond suggests that a shared species can be less unifying than a common culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
Asked about his college town, Kuzma closes his eyes and purses his lips as though he has just had a bite of the tenderest, most buttery steak he has ever eaten.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022
The choicest potatoes, the tastiest morsel, the tenderest bit of whatever there is, that’s Madame’s motto.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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