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tenderly

[ten-der-lee] / ˈtɛn dər li /
ADVERB
softly
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STRONGEST
carelessly uncarefully


ADVERB
lovingly
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Tenderly, Burns imagines her grandfather, part of the Windrush generation, being summoned back to heaven by God, the reward for a life well lived.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

At first glance, the subjects of the photographs in “Night Coming Tenderly, Black” are benign landscapes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

For last, I saved perhaps my favorite part of the exhibition, and the part that Bey said, if pressed to choose just one, continues to draw him in: “Night Coming Tenderly, Black.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Tenderly devoted to the prize horse first known as Darley, he also tangles warily with Cassius Marcellus Clay, the hotheaded, philandering abolitionist and one of Clay’s daughters, Mary Barr.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Tenderly she plucked a bite and held it in her beak, waiting for an eyas to take it.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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