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Recent Examples of unobtrusive One parent tester gave this purifier high marks for ease of installation, safety, and an unobtrusive style. Pamela Brill, Parents, 22 May 2025 When installed this way, the Scout is nicely unobtrusive. ArsTechnica, 6 May 2025 There were no other visitors and only a few unobtrusive guides to assist. Gillian Telling, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025 Under slender glass boxes that top unobtrusive pedestals, the oldest gowns and most fragile silks lay in gentle repose. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unobtrusive
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Adjective
  • For $2,100 per day, Royal Expression Travels provides an SUV or sedan with a driver at your beck and call to arrange anything from last-minute diamond shopping or rerouting helicopters to a discreet helipad.
    Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • There is a big black screen covering one side of the discreet studio space to which I’ve been sent for a meeting with Demna in a suburb of Paris.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) don't just manage disease outbreaks or approve new treatments—they're the invisible safety net beneath our health system.
    Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • Think of your circadian rhythm as an invisible operating system.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Courtesy of Four Seasons Private Jet Experience Such Herculean efforts and logistical wizardry don’t go unnoticed.
    Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • While the trophy eluded him, his grace under pressure didn't go unnoticed.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025

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“Unobtrusive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobtrusive. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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