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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Softness in the labor market comes against a backdrop of heightened uncertainty for Canadian employers and restrained hiring intentions, as the recent oil-price shock compounds concerns about trade policy and U.S. tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Softness in the labor market could encourage the Federal Reserve to slow down interest rate hikes, experts said.
From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023
Softness in style is a response to that.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022
As Softness explained, “The artworks on view allude to trauma, loss, and pain in non-explicit ways, offering personal, poetic, and symbolic perspectives.”
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2017
What could be more well-mannered, more delicate, and truly Virgilian, than the Sweetness, and Softness of that remote, insinuating Expression, oblitos fam� melioris amantes?
From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph
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