subtle
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The office of the First Lady Melania Trump, which planned the event, said the dinner menu would showcase "American ingredients with subtle Chinese influence".
From BBC β Sep. 25, 2026
Bolstered by Katelin Arizmendi’s humid cinematography and Son Lux’s anxiety-inducing electronic score, Tariq inserts subtle reminders that this hit man lives in an America that is openly hostile to Muslims.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2026
“I wouldn’t call that subtle in politics,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 20, 2026
At the last moment, however, he realized that the team had not fully accounted for a subtle effect involving air pressure.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
What if this were all a subtle trap?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
The tension emerges from something subtler: the struggle to define terms.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 7, 2026
It remains to be seen whether “Kitchen Undercover” will rely on prosthetics, fake mustaches or merely the subtler costume of the unrecognized employee.
From Salon β Jul. 5, 2026
The experience had subtler points that did not escape Rutledge.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
The film won’t win any prizes for the subtlest metaphor of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2025
Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.
From New York Times β May 10, 2024
"Blinks are one of the subtlest of human movements, so designing mechanisms that can mimic these movements require advanced technology, such as high-precision motors," Ms Kiilavuori explains.
From BBC β May 4, 2023
Thomas expects the nation to take seriously his views on the subtlest contours of the Constitution.
From Washington Post β Apr. 17, 2023
Even the smallest and subtlest and most unexpected of factors can affect the way we act.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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