tenderness

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Recent Examples of tenderness In an almost prismatic way the audience is let into each of the characters’ perspectives and vulnerabilities and their capacities for tenderness. Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 Freshly 17, the pride of Hollygrove runs through a laundry list of grievances that were gnawing at his mind, trading his typically boastful bars for tenderness and vulnerability. Pitchfork, 6 June 2025 In June, tenderness and transformation go hand in hand. Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025 This momentary pause, this saving interruption of the headlong, breathless trajectory of rape or murder, admitted a kind of compassion, pity, even tenderness, halting injustice in its tracks. Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tenderness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tenderness
kindness
Noun
  • Indeed, the designer’s intentions are based on high ideals — kindness, tolerance and humility among them — even if his methods can sometime shock.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
  • Her courage, kindness, and determination touched the lives of everyone who knew her.
    Christina Coulter, People.com, 24 June 2025

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“Tenderness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenderness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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