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The phrase "a softer version of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is a gentler or less intense form of another thing.
Example: "The new policy is a softer version of the previous one, aiming to accommodate more employee needs."
Alternatives: "a milder form of" or "a gentler variant of".
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Ms Abdullayeva thinks Ilham may be a softer version of his father, but that closed-minded advisers call the shots.
He was trying to form words, and finally, in a softer version of his drawl, managed to ask for a cigarette.
She has the same dazzling smile and a softer version of the same internal conflict between making nice and making nasty.
Merkel may seem resolutely unreasonable in relation to Greece, but she is a softer version of her electorate, to whom she is accountable.
In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney was criticized for making a softer version of a similar argument against John Kerry, the Democratic nominee challenging President George W. Bush.
"People are constantly trying to make us look a softer version of 40, or a more youthful, fresher version of 50.
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It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
I, like presumably many people, am naturally sympathetic to a soft version of his arguments.
As a remedy, in the proposed scheme, the relay transmits a "soft" version of these network-coded parity symbols.
We propose a soft version of opt-out policy that would continue to involve the family.
In the period covered by this research Wales continued with a soft version of the internal market, and since then has followed Scotland's lead by abolishing the purchaser/provider split and merging the old local health boards (LHBs) and NHS trusts into unified boards.
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