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unobtrusive

adjective as in keeping a low profile

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Watch her three short films — “Medusa,” “Hannahs” and “If Found,” all available on YouTube — and you’ll glimpse the unobtrusive, observant style she brings to “Good One,” which captures the still-festering male rivalry between middle-aged friends.

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Nazi concentration-camp guards used to enjoy unobtrusive second acts by embedding themselves into American middle-class communities.

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On the sixth day, we realised no safe place remained in Kigali so we joined the exodus - trying to be as unobtrusive as possible at the roadblocks manned by machete-wielding militia men.

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Kwak, poised and graceful, lent a surprising calm to the show, unobtrusive when needed and expressive when called for.

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Nursing, engineering and neuropsychology researchers at Florida Atlantic University are testing and evaluating a readily and rapidly available, unobtrusive in-vehicle sensing system they have developed.

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