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nuance

[noo-ahns, nyoo-, noo-ahns, nyoo-, ny-ahns] / ˈnu ɑns, ˈnju-, nuˈɑns, nju-, nüˈɑ̃s /


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She thinks ideas about dividing up the autistic spectrum lack nuance, especially around mental health.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Turkey's relationship with Israel is also not without nuance.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Mockler about the role of nuance in viral debate videos and what it would take for Democrats to win the zoomers.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

The research does, however, add some nuance to the picture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Mine was the humiliated consciousness, ashamed of its every face, its every nuance.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

There are nuances to VIX futures and options, and their corresponding ETFs and ETNs, that many traders do not fully understand.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Flattening these nuances into a single feature film would be impossible.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

All four players are exceptional in their roles, playing smartly off their screen personas while exploring the nuances of the characters and their intersecting dynamics.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

But this might be more about personal allegiances than ideological nuances.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Bobby asked Gardar what religion, if any, he believed in, and when he was told it was Catholicism, Bobby pressed for more insight, wanting to know the nuances of that theology.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

A crisply written letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon this month appears to have more work behind it than the compact did and sounds a more nuanced and generous tone.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Yet, within Ghana itself, the conversation around African complicity is far more nuanced, and for some traditional leaders, acknowledging the past is a vital prerequisite part of healing.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

For his part, Connor always feared that the show’s “rose-tinted” approach, though part of the story’s appeal, “would not be nuanced enough to talk about the complexities of being human and being young.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Robo advisers can’t handle nuanced financial planning, like tax-optimization strategies, estate planning or updating wills.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

But I had never heard of the job described in the nuanced way that Luc was describing it.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Instead, “Concentrate” shines when Taylor focuses on her archive and relates it to her own embodied experiences, nuancing the participants’ identities and humanities.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2022

If you want to stay with this guy, you’re probably going to need to work on broadening and nuancing your framing.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2019

He conceded that he had done “a poor job of nuancing what I was trying to get at.”

From New York Times Apr. 16, 2017

There will remain debates about the details of implementation and the nuancing and emphasis and the language and so on.

From Forbes Aug. 20, 2014

Another instance of the sacrifice of highly useful forms to this impatience of nuancing is the group whence, whither, hence, hither, thence, thither.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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