nuance
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It also helps that the characters are drawn with precision and nuance, allowing the actors to shape their performances with assurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
It's that nuance, Lizzy says, which is often lost in discussions of attachment theory.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bob Lang, founder of the options-trading service Explosive Options, said an important nuance is that not every hyperscaler funds its capital expenditures with external financing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
There’s no room for nuance and no time for reflection.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Of the three listening, only Poirot caught the nuance of hesitation in the reply.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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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
All four players are exceptional in their roles, playing smartly off their screen personas while exploring the nuances of the characters and their intersecting dynamics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
But this might be more about personal allegiances than ideological nuances.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
But with a DOD of 4, only someone schooled in colas is going to be able to pick up on the subtle nuances that distinguish each soft drink.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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A series of improved measures developed by Nations Indexes can give a more nuanced answer by comparing one with another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s a delicate, nuanced performance, homespun, funny, real and evocative of the way that there’s more to older people than we sometimes bother to see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
“You’re often investing a sizable amount of money for a vacation, and the world is a tricky, nuanced place right now,” said Duncan Greenfield-Turk, founder of the Global Travel Moments travel agency.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even making the decision to attend a major sporting event, therefore, is nuanced.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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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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