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nuance

[noo-ahns, nyoo-, noo-ahns, nyoo-, ny-ahns] / ˈnu ɑns, ˈnju-, nuˈɑns, nju-, nüˈɑ̃s /


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It's that nuance, Lizzy says, which is often lost in discussions of attachment theory.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

“Everywhere you turn, there’s a flourish, a nuance, a detail. There’s a bold statement that makes you sit and contemplate.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Human advisers argue that no matter how seamlessly a platform connects to a chatbot, an AI agent cannot replicate the personal relationships, nuance and emotional intelligence of a human, especially during times of hardship.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

It’s not that she holds no firm beliefs, but that she is a real person who changes in front of our eyes and ears, a nuance that no feature-length film could allow her.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

He taught ideas of nuance and complexity in his classes and yet he was asking her for a single reason, the cause.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are nuances to VIX futures and options, and their corresponding ETFs and ETNs, that many traders do not fully understand.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Flattening these nuances into a single feature film would be impossible.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

But it’s hard to capture all the nuances of AI usage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

The actor is still hesitant to detail the nuances of his friendship with Franco.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

But in dealing with Woolner’s family, especially during the annual visits to Martha’s Vineyard, Croteau said, he sometimes finds himself back in class bewilderment, feeling again that he does not get the nuances.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

All of them bring nuanced views to the debate.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Robo advisers can’t handle nuanced financial planning, like tax-optimization strategies, estate planning or updating wills.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

His nuanced supporting work allowed some of the greatest actresses of their moment attain their first fireworks.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Even making the decision to attend a major sporting event, therefore, is nuanced.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Whereas visual vocabulary tends to be more detailed, we lack nuanced conceptual words to describe sound and our relationship to it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Instead, “Concentrate” shines when Taylor focuses on her archive and relates it to her own embodied experiences, nuancing the participants’ identities and humanities.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2022

If you want to stay with this guy, you’re probably going to need to work on broadening and nuancing your framing.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2019

He conceded that he had done “a poor job of nuancing what I was trying to get at.”

From New York Times Apr. 16, 2017

There will remain debates about the details of implementation and the nuancing and emphasis and the language and so on.

From Forbes Aug. 20, 2014

As soon as the derivation runs danger of being felt as a mere nuancing of, a finicky play on, the primary concept, it tends to be absorbed by the radical word, to disappear as such.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward




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