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Adjective
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The subtle split among Democrats began emerging minutes after the first US strikes on Saturday.—
Nicholas Wu,
semafor.com,
5 Mar. 2026 -
This Madewell pair is made from high-quality denim with a subtle stretch to hug your curves and ensure all-day comfort.—
Jordan Julian,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
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In state media comedy shows, jokes about Putin are told from time to time, but they are used to bolster his image as a powerful, cunning leader, and hold up Russia as a great country.—
Neringa Klumbytė,
The Conversation,
4 Mar. 2026
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These ambitious, cunning, and often amoral Cold War operatives were usually marginal or even inconsequential figures at home.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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And are a lot of us eager to see Sabalenka try to add a big trophy to the new hardware on her ring finger—against, perhaps, Gauff, who at her best can blunt Sabalenka’s nuclear groundstrokes with her steady perseverance and wily strategy?—
Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2026
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Among them are the council’s powerful convener, Ali Larijani, and the current speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a wily former air-force general popular with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2026
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The choice of genre allows Cash to write an artful, often funny novel about the dysfunctional all-American Flynn family, centered on three insane teenage sisters.—
Malavika Kannan,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2026
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There is such intensity and passion in her whimsical and artful movements.—
Katie Gunderman,
SELF,
26 Feb. 2026
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Eluemunor is also a very crafty run blocker.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Haggerty isn’t the most explosive athlete, but was still able to get to his spots with his crafty footwork to find space through the TCU defense.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Mar. 2026
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As Halloween approaches, investors seem fearful that good credit performance may be more trick than treat.—
Telis Demos,
WSJ,
21 Oct. 2022
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If the high cost of it all is more trick than treat for you, here are several ways to turn your already smart home into a spook-tacularly genius haunted house.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA TODAY,
28 Oct. 2021
Adjective
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The shift away from reliability suggests a sly reversal of sympathies from the artist to the do-gooder sibling.—
Elaine Blair,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Consider Aspen, an exploration of the Colorado resort community that sees Wiseman balance his respect for the town’s palatial beauty and the workers tasked with its upkeep with his sly contempt for the wealthy denizens treating the town like their playground.—
Vikram Murthi,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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Ferries ran from Dublin to Holyhead, on Anglesey; but crossing from there to the Welsh mainland, also by ferry, was notoriously tricky.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN Money,
9 Mar. 2026
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And some of that phrasing is pretty tricky.—
Blair R. Fischer,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Subtile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtile. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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