nuance

My English teachers and literature professors were probably too tired to parse such nuance, and I don’t blame them.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The short-video format leaves little room for nuance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Vance “has sought to surface a greater level of detail and nuance about the war,” it says, and “developed a reputation inside the Trump administration for steeping himself in operational detail.”

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Making Shakespeare’s plays accessible is a noble goal, but there are other ways to go about this beyond modernizing the text and diluting its lyrical beauty and nuance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The result is that we have retained a nuance of meaning that the unfortunate Britons have lost.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

For example, says Sharp, with fibre, "You can't take tight turns. There are little nuances on how to structure that."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

This, of course, has its own nuances — a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the artist’s wrongdoings — but being a functional adult means learning to measure your own integrity.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

It’s going to take me years to become fluent in all the nuances of the sport.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Though she showed many classic early childhood indicators — sensitivity to noise, extremely limited food preferences, rigid adherence to routine and difficulties understanding social nuances — no one suggested she was autistic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

The sweetness of the vegetables became more nuanced instead of landing like a sledgehammer.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

While this is a true crime story with shaky alibis and prosecutorial misconduct, it is less a whodunit and more a nuanced exploration of reasonable doubt and how our system works or doesn’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

His takeaway is nuanced, and he cautioned that investors shouldn’t use conference-call mentions “ as a proxy for either the technology’s adoption or near-term utility.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Dietitians who watched Oreo-gate unfold offered a more nuanced view than simply casting parents who restrict treats as overbearing—or those who don’t as negligent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But as long as “West Computer” was still the unspoken code for “Colored Computer,” the decision to draw the curtain on Dorothy’s group would require more nuanced consideration.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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 Edward Sapir