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tender-minded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tender-minded
Adjective
  • Yet other filmmakers pick up on the thread of romantic longing Whale introduced in 1935 with The Bride of Frankenstein, leading to films like Edward Scissorhands (1990) in which the monster becomes a sentimental anti-hero.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Family heirlooms or sentimental items might not be used frequently (or at all), but the emotional attachment to these things is worth the valuable space on your storage shelves.
    Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The overseers noted, however, that the most zealous learners in the workhouse’s voluntary night literacy classes were Black men.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Towns like Savyntsi are getting help from a loose movement of nonprofits and zealous volunteers such as Markevych, the psychologist who founded the Mobile School of Resilience three years ago.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While the center has shifted its funding to focus to operating the two clinics and remaining open as a gathering space, Hawkins is still optimistic despite the losses.
    Eloise Rollins-Fife, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • And participants with the top 20% of stock holdings are especially optimistic.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • When and how this messianic revolution would come about was up for debate and speculation, but large segments of the population, based on specific prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, believed that the time was at hand.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Much was remarkable about the event—the huge turnout, the alternating notes of forgiveness and retribution, the generally messianic atmosphere—but something that Pete Hegseth, the Fox host turned Pentagon chief, said onstage stood out to me.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Tender-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tender-minded. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.

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