as in gentleness
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Noun
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The result is a layered conversation in which many contemporary themes such as colonisation and gender structures intersect and are revealed with gentleness and irony. Where These Flowers BloomAna Margarita Flores CATERINA DE BIASIO Thank you for accepting my invitation.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
20 June 2025 -
This suggests that meeting your pain with gentleness rather than judgment or avoidance, can be deeply protective.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.—
Lesley M.M. Blume,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Nov. 2022
Noun
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Their friendliness with the crew seems to have paid off: Tests suggest the adult cat was mainly eating fish and meats like pork, poultry and beef.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 May 2025
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Many of them are encouraged at friendliness to their cause in the Trump administration.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
1 May 2025
Noun
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His object is to isolate and mimic the rudiments of human sociability.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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Classic research from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that women consider the eyes when rating attractiveness, largely in order to assess sociability and approachableness.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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“Placability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placability. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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