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Recent Examples of subtlety The striking arrow shapes are an empowering accessory, yet there’s a subtlety in the muted bronze, ebony, and antique diamonds (which have a softer shimmer than modern cuts). Jill Newman, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025 Harper has a good feel for finding the subtleties in straightforward situations to create an advantage. Jared Weiss, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 However, by creating sharp boundaries, the schema obscured the subtleties of what happened between them. Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025 For an actor who’s long mastered the art of subtlety, this role feels like a deliberate shake-up, and a reminder that Stanfield’s range still has new corners to reveal. Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for subtlety
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Noun
  • The story follows Toto, an almost completely blind cat with incredible ninja skills, who must use her courage and cunning to stop a deadly King Cobra that has escaped onto the streets of London, alongside her cheeky brother Silver.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There is a real seriousness to the score — the scheming bad-guy music has the artfulness of Prokofiev, and even the sneaking-around cues have musical integrity and structure.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Subtlety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtlety. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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