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Recent Examples of softener
Instead of softener, add half a cup of white vinegar to the rinse cycle to naturally soften towels and remove detergent residue without dulling the color.
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Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Clothing manufacturers no longer must choose between using a softener that is durable but negatively impacts cotton’s natural absorbency or one that preserves the fiber’s ability to hold moisture but also washes off through home laundering.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Flush your water heater twice a year, and think about using a water softener to stop scale buildup in pipes.
—Tina Chen, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Clothing manufacturers no longer must choose between using a softener that is durable but negatively impacts cotton’s natural absorbency or one that preserves the fiber’s ability to hold moisture but also washes off through home laundering.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Flush your water heater twice a year, and think about using a water softener to stop scale buildup in pipes.
—Tina Chen, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for softener
Noun
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Buying a small business doesn’t have to mean becoming the owner of a mundane muffler shop or America’s 19,503rd Subway franchise.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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This Avanti has a V8 engine with an R2 supercharger, power steering, a silent muffler, a floor-shift automatic transmission and Twin-Traction differential.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Only on particularly bumpy tarmac did the GTS-spec suspension become too jarring with the adaptive dampers stiffened up in sport mode, but switching them to normal offered the best of both worlds—excellent, composed body control and tuning that ironed out imperfections remarkably well.—
Peter Nelson,
Robb Report,
1 Oct. 2025
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Helping harness grip in the S5 is fully independent five-link suspension at all four corners—the only member of the segment to have it—plus a sport differential and adaptive dampers.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But at least Chalamet doesn’t try to soft pedal Dylan’s surliness and careerism, and his vocal re-creations are mostly spot on.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Feb. 2025
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Authors aimed at the business market tend to soft pedal AI, speaking only about the benefits while downplaying or outright ignoring the dangers.—
David A. Teich,
Forbes,
10 Sep. 2024
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“Softener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softener. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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