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When atmospheric gravity waves pass through this glowing region, they create subtle variations in brightness that can reveal their distinctive ripple patterns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

And Donte King, whose family endures racism both subtle and blatant, praises the filmmakers’ attempts to humanize people with contrasting viewpoints, saying he was pleased with getting to tell his story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They show O’Keeffe’s favored back view, and the beguilingly spare, almost biomorphic forms of its massive adobe buttresses, along with the subtle shadows, that make that completely understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The subtle differences by which Kyle plays older Hal versus Halogram Hal is really on sharp display in the finale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

I began to change in subtle ways and quickly lost patience with people who owned too many books.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Critics, including the leadership of SAG-AFTRA, counter that the displacement is already at hand in subtler ways, with background roles and commercials increasingly filled by digital doubles rather than human performers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

“He won’t overplay. De Niro has a fantastic reputation, but he’s uneven. Duvall is subtler and better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Bad Bunny’s signifiers were subtler, although some may not have contained the meaning people read into them.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026

At least Arthur is a lot subtler than he used to be.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 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 ● May 4, 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