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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subtile
Adjective
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China reacted angrily Monday to new State Department wording that appeared to indicate a subtle shift in favor of Taipei.—
Christian Shepherd The Washington Post,
arkansasonline.com,
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Detecting them requires analyzing traffic patterns and employing advanced tools capable of spotting subtle, consistent signals of bot activity across deep and wide data rivers.—
Dan Yerushalmi,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Reading it, one is reminded, once again, that Trump is a politician who is cunning but semiliterate and ignorant.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sign up The abusive couple were cunning, said Allison Pearson in The Daily Telegraph.—
The Week UK,
theweek,
21 Dec. 2024
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Two wily cousins take on the mob while also running around a giant film set?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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Out on the wily, windy moors—or, just the snowy Berlinale International Film Festival—Jacob Elordi has debuted another hair transformation.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2025
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Brady’s movies exude showmanship at its most artful — worlds containing multitudes, and among those multitudes, singular people carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders like the Greek Titan Atlas.—
Natalie Portman,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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Exhibits here are often curated to playfully interact with the museum’s artful spaces, designed by Renzo Piano in 1997.—
Adam H. Graham,
AFAR Media,
10 Feb. 2025
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Their other top highlight was Benoit getting in a fight, which may have been a crafty gambit to halt play while he was stuck on the ice during a long shift.—
Nick Ashbourne,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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This moment is clearly designed to set up next season’s feuds, but Gay, the crafty ringleader of the bunch — practically a producer on the show — frames it as a necessary release for the paranoid group of friends.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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My idea was not to get too trick-sy with it, to keep it at a fairly simple visual level.—
Corey S Powell,
Discover Magazine,
5 Nov. 2014
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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
Adjective
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His cocksure sendup of a particular mystic-himbo archetype contributes a strain of sly comedy to a film otherwise marked by a sincere intensity of feeling.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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There’s a sly playfulness in Gerster’s handling of the story, molding a character study into something closer to a thriller.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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Those negotiations are certain to be tricky after a campaign which exposed sharp divisions over migration and how to deal with the AfD in a country where far-right politics carry a particularly strong stigma due to its Nazi past.—
Sarah Marsh and Matthias Williams,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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This can be tricky in a random market, but this is no random market.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Subtile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtile. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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