subtle
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"This highlights a key advantage of our method: Phase measurements can be much more sensitive than intensity measurements in detecting subtle ultrafast processes."
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
The base was rich, but it lacked the kind of body that makes a chowder feel finished: the subtle thickness, the quiet cohesion.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026
Mr. Sewell is first-rate on the development of Dulles’s foreign-policy philosophy and shows him to be a far more subtle thinker than is often understood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"The way she plays is subtle but integral to the team that she's in. If Keira's good and if Keira's flying, the team's flying," Williamson told the Women's Football Weekly podcast.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
His moods have so followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the monster may be carried to him in some subtle way.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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