Thesaurus results for TECHNICALITY

technicality

noun

as in subtlety

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Recent Examples of technicality Not having a permit is just a technicality. —

Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026 Remember when conservatives looked down on winning due to a technicality? —

Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026 Sun Chanthy then joined the Candlelight Party, the successor to the Cambodia National Rescue Party, but it in turn was barred from competing in the 2023 general election on a technicality. —

ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026 The designation is merely a technicality, according to the American Presidency Project. —

Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for technicality

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subtlety

Noun

There’s nothing fancy about a big, square screen that sits upstage of the circular playing area, but the subtlety in which the images and mood flows through the screen greatly enhance the storytelling.

— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
These are thematically on-the-nose gestures, but Kawamura, unlike the game’s creators, doesn’t place a premium on subtlety—or, for that matter, interactivity.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026