subtly

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The area of high pressure will subtly shift position over the next few days and this will allow some of this hot air to come into the south-east of the UK.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Until recently, its crowning achievements were “shrinkflation,” where companies subtly reduce product sizes to raise unit prices, and “garbatrage,” when a takeover announcement sends shares of low-quality companies in the same industry higher.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Our critic called it “gripping from the beginning,” noting that director Milagros Mumenthaler “has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

In real experiments, however, the value shifts slightly because other particles briefly appear and disappear in empty space, subtly affecting the muon's behavior.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

He found that the hypnotic, seemingly repetitive and endless patterns of these drum- and mallet- based styles did not in fact stay the same: instead they changed subtly with each reiteration of the phrase.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall