subtle

The most likely explanation is that some subtle experimental effect has been overlooked.

From Science Daily ● 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 ● Sep. 20, 2026

"The subtle colour of a tie or hair bobble… all of these are signals that allow the wearer to symbolically share their cultural and ideological positions," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

If you appreciate Rhea Seehorn’s complex, subtle acting, her dynamic range and her deadpan humor, then you’ve probably found the Emmys to be maddening over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Salve, amice,” he said, and a subtle animation flickered in his rigid features, usually so locked up, and distant: “Valesne? Quid est rei?”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

As particle accelerators became more powerful and detectors grew increasingly sensitive, researchers gained access to subtler physical processes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 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 ● Jul. 5, 2026

The effect Smith’s spring training work behind the plate will have on the Dodgers’ season will be subtler.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

More mature consumers are likely to stick with natural, subtler looks, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students’ answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The film won’t win any prizes for the subtlest metaphor of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● May 10, 2024

Through the warm friendship of Tara and Karan, the series also imparts one of its subtlest takes on relationships.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023

Thomas expects the nation to take seriously his views on the subtlest contours of the Constitution.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023

It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating.

From "1984" by George Orwell