tactful
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He has found a way to be both tactful and transgressive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
If I’m misreading the situation and you do really like him and want to address this, there are tactful ways to do so.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025
It plans to do this through networking, or linking physical quantum systems together, rather than piling more qubits onto a chip—a tactful approach, seeing as a higher number of qubits typically correlates to more errors.
From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025
Here’s what I’m wrestling with: In order to be tactful, should I make clear that gifts are optional?
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2023
And Rich grins, gestures his thumb toward my mother, and says to me, “Can you believe what comes out of her mouth? Now I know where you get your sweet, tactful nature.”
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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