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treating with kid gloves

treating with kid gloves is the present participle and gerund of treat with kid gloves.

Meaning of treat 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

Questions about treating with kid gloves

What is treating with kid gloves the present participle and gerund of?
Treating with kid gloves is the present participle and gerund of treat with kid gloves.

Words near treating with kid gloves in the dictionary

  1. treating like dirt
  2. treating like garbage
  3. treating like shit
  4. treating like trash
  5. treating of
  6. treating with kid gloves
  7. treatings
  8. treatise
  9. treatiselike
  10. treatiser
  11. treatisers

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