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Adjective
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Cacio e pepe, with its Parmesan and black pepper, is more subtle.—
Lauryn Azu,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025 -
Picture red tuna fish caught that morning cooked in a subtle mix of local spices and topped over fresh linguine or meatier cuts of fish served like steak with fresh vegetables plucked from nearby farms.—
Rooksana Hossenally,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Black Friday had become a competitive event requiring planning and cunning to get the good deals first.—
Mary Meehan,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Finding other disease-causing somatic mutations in rheumatology and related specialties will take skill, cunning, and a willingness to test cells and organs throughout the body.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Filmmakers found their wily fox with a heart of gold, Fink, in Pedro Pascal, but not the Pascal with whom audiences are familiar.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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Anchoring his bravura action filmmaking are the performances of Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal, both bravely playing straight men to some wild and wily characters who are conspiring to make Roman mayhem.—
Steven Gaydos,
Variety,
16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Walls have artisan rugs as artwork; while, underfoot, carpets are handwoven and artful clusters of lights are made from traditional glass lanterns.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Rooted in sometimes artful but often ham-handed borrowing of various African traditions, the holiday is one of the many bridges Black Americans tried to build between themselves and the African homeland of their imagination.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The Scottish mod rogues are back with their best album in 15 years, a resurgence for the craftiest, most clever U.K. guitar band of their era.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
11 Jan. 2025
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Throwing him in there with an explosive bruiser like Sheamus and a crafty technician like Kaiser was a great way to showcase everything great about all three guys.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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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That endeavor seemed as much a sly joke as an artistic statement.—
Stephen Galloway,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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Her words were few, but her sly smile was still there.—
Anne Byrn,
Southern Living,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The third phase will also be tricky, as Hamas will return the bodies of deceased hostages in return for a postwar Gaza reconstruction plan.—
Brad Dress,
The Hill,
18 Jan. 2025
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Still, the logistics of figuring out her tuition billing proved tricky.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
The Denver Post,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Subtile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtile. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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