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as in mild
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as in inconspicuous
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Recent Examples of unemphatic
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
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Patrick Friel,
Chicago Reader,
17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
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Lili Anolik,
Vanities,
14 Dec. 2017
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—
Patrick Friel,
Chicago Reader,
17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—
Lili Anolik,
Vanities,
14 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemphatic
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The humidity lifts, replaced by bright, mild days made for the historic streets of Savannah and Charleston, or the maritime forests and salt marshes beyond them.
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Scattered over the top were generous pebbles of queso panela, mild, milky and squeaky like halloumi.
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Ezra stays inconspicuous by filming the lines with a pair of Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, which synch with his iPhone.
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Test vinegar for colorfastness in an inconspicuous area on colored sheets before using it to freshen them.
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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Without a unified, clean, and accessible data structure, AI outputs quickly become ambiguous, hallucinated, and diluted, deepening the clarity crisis rather than resolving it.
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It’s designed to sit under your clothing to be reasonably unobtrusive, save for two elements.
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David might be the most influential yet unobtrusive trailblazer the Canadian team has ever had.
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People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.
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Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.
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Do the people queuing for takeaway chicken at Popeyes, directly opposite, know what went down behind that unremarkable shop front?
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Maybe there was a gift card and restaurant visit too — an altogether enjoyable, but unremarkable celebration.
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Still, though these three actors play multiple roles and their ensemble members get to sink into just one, there’s not an uncompelling performance happening on stage.
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Those urging the Fed to slow down make four reasonable but uncompelling arguments.
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The consequences of such an error, in the context of a computation where there is no cross-checking in place, can range from unnoticeable to catastrophic.
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Except her shell is rather flat compared to others’, its spiral unremarkable, its apex nearly unnoticeable.
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“Unemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemphatic. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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