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nuance

noun as in slight difference; shading

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Using archaeological evidence, Mr. Rees aims to present a nuanced view of what life was like both along and beyond the borders of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

“Your build needs to be more nuanced, and you need to evaluate players in a much different way.”

That’s also a much more nuanced consideration than it used to be.

Yet the calculations are capped at a difference of 400 rating points—a nuance that played right into Nakamura’s hands when his opponents in these tournaments were sometimes far more than 400 points beneath him.

Four years later, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all nuance was gone; the version of Jefferson on display became a denigrating demonstration of hypocrisy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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