subtle
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Sol was subtle about his wealth, says Raoul Felder, Sol’s friend and onetime divorce attorney.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 5, 2026
The researchers also had to account for subtle changes caused by the positions of the sun and the moon, as well as differences in terrain, latitude, and elevation.
From Science Daily β Aug. 28, 2026
Looking at video footage now, there were subtle warning signs of what was to come.
From Salon β Aug. 26, 2026
"It is so slow, it is so subtle, the behaviour development, that you do not see it creeping up and then you freeze."
From BBC β Aug. 24, 2026
Needless to say, artistic creation is too subtle and intimate an experience to permit an exact step-by-step description.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
As particle accelerators became more powerful and detectors grew increasingly sensitive, researchers gained access to subtler physical processes.
From Science Daily β Sep. 2, 2026
There’s a second, subtler reason, found in “Regime Change,” a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 18, 2026
Critics, including the leadership of SAG-AFTRA, counter that the displacement is already at hand in subtler ways, with background roles and commercials increasingly filled by digital doubles rather than human performers.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 13, 2026
It’s a subtler way to exert leverage over the world’s most important oil chokepoint, analysts at J.P.
From MarketWatch β May 19, 2026
His methods were subtler and more economical with direct force than one might expect, as exemplified by the slow takeover of the coastal valley of Chincha.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Inflation is one of the economy’s most important vital signs and one of the subtlest to measure.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 12, 2026
The subtlest animation looks the best, especially when sunlight dapples upon fur or felines flex their claws to assert power.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 19, 2024
Through the warm friendship of Tara and Karan, the series also imparts one of its subtlest takes on relationships.
From BBC β Aug. 18, 2023
The group’s project, which is sponsored by the Colombian government, focuses on the subtlest, non-motor symptoms of the disease.
From New York Times β May 23, 2023
Many patrons only glance at them before moving on, but the longer you watch, the more you can detect the subtlest of motions.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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