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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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The cold snap that permeated the Bay Area earlier this week and made the rain seem a bit chillier than usual may seem like nothing more than a mild cooldown by the time the weekend dawns, according to the National Weather Service.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Despite their relatively thin profile, however, the Venta gloves were too hot for runs in mild temps above 30 degrees Fahrenheit.Mark Eller, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
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Note that this may mean threading them through an inconspicuous piece of cushion fabric.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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Demure and inconspicuous, it’s supposed to blend unobtrusively into the scenery, to serve as a quiet workhorse instead of an ostentatious status symbol.Christopher Null, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2020
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Sunny is the creation of Suzie’s husband, who died under ambiguous circumstances, leaving her alone in their life in Kyoto.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
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To minimize misinterpretations, providing clear guidelines for writing test instructions and avoiding ambiguous phrasing is key.Asad Khan, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Underfoot, the flexible sole provides unobtrusive support and a stable, comfortable platform without drawing attention to itself.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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The enclosure is less than half an inch thick, with only an unobtrusive chin below the display housing the iMac's mainboard.Brian Westover, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 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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For a guy into complicated killing rituals, Art sure does kill himself in an unremarkable fashion by putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.Barry Levitt, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life.Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 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 28 Nov. 2024.
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