subtler
- comparative of subtle.
Example Sentences
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The effect Smith’s spring training work behind the plate will have on the Dodgers’ season will be subtler.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
It’s a subtler way to exert leverage over the world’s most important oil chokepoint, analysts at J.P.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
What draws him most is subtler than that.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Bad Bunny’s signifiers were subtler, although some may not have contained the meaning people read into them.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026
She stood up a little straighter, but she had no time to gather her courage, because outside the thoom came again, lower now and with subtler tremors, and then again and again in rhythmic repetition.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
