nuance
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Following Seeley’s insight, others showed how changes in the salience network can be detected in schizophrenia and autism—conditions where patients lose awareness of social nuance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Women, and especially mothers, are not cheering Clancy on, but are largely calling for some nuance and care.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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Scott Carrick began watching cricket on television during the pandemic and gradually figured out the nuances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
This, of course, has its own nuances — a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the artist’s wrongdoings — but being a functional adult means learning to measure your own integrity.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
"So, how does a self-driving vehicle respond to emergency services? And what are the nuances of doing that in a crowded place like London?"
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
It’s going to take me years to become fluent in all the nuances of the sport.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
I answered that it was strained, that it attributed nuances to the various conflicting commentaries that were not there, and that, therefore, it really was not a reconciliation at all.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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Such is the beauty of Mungiu’s observational, deceptively nuanced writing.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Awards voters typically don’t appreciate nuanced acting, too often equating “best” with “most.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jacob Klein, the head of threat intelligence at Anthropic, told the New York Times, external it was "an incredibly nuanced situation".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He defended the Smithsonian’s scholarly integrity and said he will continue to “protect the importance of doing nuanced, complicated history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
More nuanced and more revealing is Wills’s other remark—that “Everett’s classicism was as much the forerunner of Lincoln’s talk as its foil or contrast.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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
As soon as the derivation runs danger of being felt as a mere nuancing of, a finicky play on, the primary concept, it tends to be absorbed by the radical word, to disappear as such.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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