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as in mild
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as in inconspicuous
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Recent Examples of unemphatic
The former is quietly involving: unhurried, unemphatic, observant.
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Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 July 2018
This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity.
—Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said.
—Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemphatic
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In Southern California, weather conditions were milder.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Temperatures will be mild, with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s, making for pleasant holiday weather overall.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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The physical toll of giving birth is covered up, made as inconspicuous as the children who have left these same marks.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
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Just make sure to test the shaving cream on a small, inconspicuous area of the material before applying in larger or more prominent areas.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
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The movie is ambiguous about why Dylan offers to drive Rotolo to the festival on his motorcycle and then leaves her to tearfully witness his chemistry with Baez — whether there is lingering romantic interest there.Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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Out of the box, human language is ambiguous and nuanced with idioms, sarcasm or cultural references, challenging LLMs to interpret correctly.Son Nguyen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Something about this store feels so unobtrusive, so utilitarian, without feeling cold or boring.Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 24 Dec. 2024
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Spotify just wants as much of our time and attention as possible, and a steady stream of melodic, unobtrusive sounds could be the best way to appeal to a passive listener.Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
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Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.Alina Dizik, WSJ, 16 May 2017
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These strategies are now unremarkable enough to be taught to kids in schools.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
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The trip is really propaganda, meant to support’s Japan’s colonial expansion policy, and the naive Aoyama sends home a series of unremarkable essays to be published in Mainland Japanese papers.Irina Dumitrescu, The Dial, 27 Nov. 2024
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But there’s a wealth of psychological mystery in Sutherland’s unshowy, uninflected turn.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 25 June 2024
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His movies are often in motion, and there’s a vibrant, fast-moving, yet unshowy energy to CRA, which moves briskly from one ornate setting to the next (though none of the film’s visuals can match the majesty that is Ken Jeong’s Versace bomber jacket, which looks like it was flown in from Sgt.Pia Ceres, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2018
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Jennifer Kale is a witch who is very guarded and needs to learn how to trust people, and keeps getting tested on that over and over again throughout the show.Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Our spirits remain guarded, but high, for this one; the Venice Film Festival crowd seemed to eat it up.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Unemphatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemphatic. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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