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tender

[ten-der] / ˈtɛn dər /






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More than a meta perspective or conventional behind-the-scenes doc, “Making Marie Antoinette” is a tender portrait of familial love from mother and daughter alike.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Videos show people, mostly teens, euphorically peeling off the outer layer to reveal a tender, ultra-juicy gummy core.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Now, “Luna” is tender and otherworldly, drenched in the high drama and glamour that San Cha so loves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

You can totally zone out and let the composition’s tragic, tender and triumphant sounds take you on an emotional journey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Could she be jealous of all this tender attention lavished on the Incorrigibles, who, despite their adorable eccentricities and mysterious background, were really perfect strangers to Miss Mortimer?

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

Oftentimes, if you scratch a gearhead’s chrome-plated obsession, what you uncover is something tenderer than a Proustian remembrance.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

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

But older, tenderer, more familiar associations, mastered all the others when we heard his voice again—the faithful voice that had warned and comforted us so long in public and in private.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Just as importantly, Moore and Sabbat’s lovely performances slyly alter our impressions of those previous chapters, building to some of the tenderest moments of Jarmusch’s career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

"Want the tenderest chicken wings with a sticky glaze and glassy skin?"

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 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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