unobtrusive
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The newly designed white French loudspeakers suspended over the Bowl stage along with ground-level white cubes of super-effective subwoofers have clean, unobtrusive lines that well fit the shell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The idea is that computing will be ambient but unobtrusive, there when you need it, but not when you don’t.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Instead of narration, unobtrusive captions appeared on screen with price, provenance or other details about various market items, leaving room for the ambient sounds to come to the fore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
She won gold in the Wellness category at the Stoperiet Open bodybuilding competition in April - a category which places special emphasis on natural fitness, healthy appearance and unobtrusive beauty, rather than large muscle mass.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
It was a private and unobtrusive moment, one that failed to dent the rhythm of the office.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing unobtrusive
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Grade 10, List 5
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Power Prefix: un-
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