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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tender-minded
Adjective
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Left behind were a portrait of her grandmother, photographs of her family, jewelry, wardrobe and the less sentimental essentials of life, glasses for reading music, tax records, medicine, passports and car.—
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2025 -
As a pianist, Jarrett was like the soul brother of Rachmaninoff crossed with a sentimental free-jazz rhapsodist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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Many nations across the Global South—including key players in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—do not share Europe's zealous support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Now President Trump is aggressively seeking to reduce the size and strength of the IRS amid his zealous initiative to shrink the workforce and activities of the federal government.—
Bruce Brumberg,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Future of Foreign Aid: Rethink, Not Retreat Despite dramatic aid shifts being experienced around the world, Haddad remains cautiously optimistic.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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But while many in Altadena’s entrepreneurial community remain optimistic about a recovery, multiple business owners described lengthy and difficult roads ahead.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.—
Susan Orlean,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2019
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Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.—
Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Feb. 2018
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People who were skeptical of this all-consuming love fest were viewed as crazy racists and messianic fanatics.—
Uri Kurlianchik,
National Review,
25 Feb. 2025
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Among them was the theologian and international-relations theorist Reinhold Niebuhr, whose book The Irony of American History is both a defense of American democracy and a rigorous condemnation of liberal messianic illusions.—
Anatol Lieven,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Tender-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tender-minded. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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