softness
Americannoun
noun
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the quality or an instance of being soft
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metallurgy the tendency of a metal to distort easily See brittleness toughness
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With post-Covid balance-sheet strengthening and cost discipline helping Qantas absorb this year’s spike in fuel costs and consumer softness, Creech sees potential for upward revisions to his conservative forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Kay: The softness in Henry was a function of Kit playing the character and us writing to that vulnerability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
With shares recently showing signs of softness, investors are beginning to question whether the software rally can maintain its footing without clear leadership from its most influential name.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
The larger question for men in the labor market is what comes next, and whether recent softness represents a temporary setback, or something that could be longer lasting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
It felt like her too: warm and solid with a little softness under a long, starched-crisp skirt.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
His touch was special, even in introductions and final flourishes; he built waves within his playing, revealing softnesses in his sound even while working intensely.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2013
The authors have not entirely evaded its treacherous softnesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a sprinkling of faces a shade less evil leavened the mass; for to the feast came trooping the women of the camp: of a kidney with the men—yet women, with women's beguilements and softnesses.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
My spirit is rather unbendable as yet to the softnesses of these strange words, stiff for want of use, so forgive a tendency to go round them.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von
“How very poetical!” she said, with a little choking laugh, unknown relentings, unfamiliar softnesses, moving within her.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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