subtle

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

That compression could have left behind a denser region below Stickney Crater, creating a subtle gravitational signature that scientists may be able to detect.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

During his own college career, which he spent mostly holding a clipboard, Woodin earned a Ph.D. in the subtle nuances of the quarterback position.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

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 ● 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

It’s a subtler way to exert leverage over the world’s most important oil chokepoint, analysts at J.P.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

While not in any way rabble-rousing, they wage subtler revolutions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

And there’s a subtler problem: molecules generally refuse to sit still for their portraits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

By subconsciously mirroring even the subtlest twitches of expression and biological rhythms of other people, we can channel their thoughts and feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

In his subtlest, most challenging and finest performance since his Oscar-nominated double role in “Adaptation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

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 ● May 23, 2023

"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 ● May 4, 2023

Blue skies, cool temperatures, the subtlest of breezes.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart