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treat with kid gloves

treat with kid gloves verb: synonym of handle with kid gloves.

Verb

treat with kid gloves (third-person singular simple present treats with kid gloves, present participle treating with kid gloves, simple past and past participle treated with kid gloves)

  1. Synonym of handle with kid gloves.
    • Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

Synonyms of treat with kid gloves

Forms of treat with kid gloves

third-person singular presenttreats with kid gloves
present participletreating with kid gloves
past participletreated with kid gloves
pasttreated with kid gloves

Questions about treat with kid gloves

What does treat with kid gloves mean?
Treat with kid gloves means synonym of handle with kid gloves.
What part of speech is treat with kid gloves?
Treat with kid gloves is a verb.
What is the past tense of treat with kid gloves?
The past tense of treat with kid gloves is treated with kid gloves.

Words near treat with kid gloves in the dictionary

  1. treat like garbage
  2. treat like shit
  3. treat like trash
  4. treat of
  5. treat them mean, keep them keen
  6. treat with kid gloves
  7. treat-to-target
  8. treatabilities
  9. treatability
  10. treatable
  11. treatableness

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