as in gentleness
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Noun
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If your child is displaying any of these signs, gentleness is your best option for supporting them.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025 -
Set in Olivier’s home, the campaign comes to life through a delicate balance of gentleness and audacity, a duality woven into its narrative.—
Essence,
Essence,
21 Feb. 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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The big picture: Trump's friendliness toward Putin isn't a new phenomenon.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
4 Mar. 2025
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Eschewing cult-leader cliché for a plummy everyday friendliness that eventually circles round to sinister, Ben Whishaw cleverly plays Elon as equal parts guru and grifter: His counsel is sometimes obvious, but what the person needs to hear just the same.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The findings highlight that a richer social environment during rearing—one that includes contact with mothers and other cows—promotes greater sociability and social competence in adult cattle.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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Kin selection and reciprocal altruism are two natural modes of human sociability.—
Francis Fukuyama,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2014
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“Placability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placability. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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