nonobvious

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Recent Examples of nonobvious In fact, adopting AI, especially with something as central to success as pricing, makes figuring out how to fit the old with the new both critically important and nonobvious. Mike Ryan, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022 This comes to resemble a branding exercise—perhaps a necessary one to sell a book these days—but the advice is good, and some of it nonobvious. Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2021 The rise of cloud computing, open-source platforms and the API economy has contributed in both obvious and nonobvious ways to this transformation. Romi Stein, Forbes, 1 June 2021 To get a patent, an invention must be novel, nonobvious and useful—all reasonable requirements. Paul R. Michel and Matthew J. Dowd, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020 And to also keep nonobvious stuff on hand — like teddy bears for the kids, a rubber bone for the dog and $50 in cash, all in $1 bills. Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2019 But nonobvious money trails are popular on both ends of the spectrum. Scott Walter, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonobvious
Adjective
  • In fact, she was designed to be ethnically ambiguous for that reason, suggested Carlos Cortés, professor emeritus in history at UC Riverside, who consulted the creative team.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • Emojis in texts: More than just fun, a tool for connection While emojis can sometimes be ambiguous or misunderstood, especially in sarcastic or complex conversations, their overall impact is positive.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists will use this data to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain mysterious.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
  • Here's everything to know about the teenager's final hours and the aftermath of her mysterious death.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • What’s unclear is whether Staley even really wanted the Knicks job.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
  • Mercedes remains linked to Red Bull's Max Verstappen — leading to Russell's future becoming increasingly unclear.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • Outraged, Gauguin located an obscure French law that proved only children within a four-kilometre radius of a school were bound to attend.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • Chartreuse Made by actual French monks based on a nearly 300-year-old secret recipe, this high-proof, kelly green spirit is a bit of an obscure flex.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • In years to come, the memories would have been indistinct.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Something similar could be said for the grainy, indistinct black-and-white photos of tortured and murdered prisoners, the shaky footage of work camps.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • And as the discourse around it keeps stacking up, what started as a silly turn of phrase has devolved into an incomprehensible mess that’s preventing people from noticing the much more insidious shift around them.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
  • This is because for the first Daemon X Machina, the story was an incomprehensible mess.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • On Thursday, Bloom shared a series of cryptic quotes from Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung on Instagram.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
  • The team also discovered two more new species: the cryptic Namib day gecko and the miniature Namib day gecko.
    Aspen Pflughoeft July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • The same narrative was recycled, almost ritualistically, whenever the enigmatic artist took the stage.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Her voice soon catches the attention of the admired and enigmatic choirmaster Machá (Juraj Loj).
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 8 July 2025

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“Nonobvious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonobvious. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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