subtle
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The answer, for now at least, is yes - but learning to spot an AI fake requires a more subtle approach.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Women come from other groups, but in worlds where female mobility is a common pattern, from the great apes to human societies, interpreting this signal immediately becomes more subtle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
In Latin America, as Hayes-Bautista explained, after centuries of Indigenous and Spanish intermingling, racial and ethnic lines were fluid, with myriad, subtle gradations of color, lineage and heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“It’s not the agreeableness alone, it’s all these subtle engineering choices that make chatbots feel human,” Wright said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
It works: the fresco is incredibly subtle and layered.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The tension emerges from something subtler: the struggle to define terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
It’s a subtler way to exert leverage over the world’s most important oil chokepoint, analysts at J.P.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
What draws him most is subtler than that.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
She displayed “Poppy,” a squeegee abstract in cheery red and blue hues, in her living room, with an untitled version in subtler white and green hues from 2009 hanging in her bedroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The experience had subtler points that did not escape Rutledge.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
By subconsciously mirroring even the subtlest twitches of expression and biological rhythms of other people, we can channel their thoughts and feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Since horses are prey animals, they have evolved to respond to the subtlest of aural stimuli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Through the warm friendship of Tara and Karan, the series also imparts one of its subtlest takes on relationships.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
“Since you asked, it was the subtlest form of expression known to humans. The first novel was probably Murasaki Shikibu’s ‘Tale of Genji,’ written in the 11th century.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
It wasn’t science at its subtlest, but it was generally effective.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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