Vocabulary
Nuance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
Urdu meaning
پہلو، نازک فرق، شائبہ، نازک پہلوﺅں کی طرف اشارہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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But conversations proved to be a crash course and provided me with nuance that reading on its own might not have been able to do.Each festival had some 40 to 50 sessions and 200-plus panellists or speakers.
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Festivals and conferences
— 2026-02-27
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The global impact of ongoing tariff wars adds nuance to inflation dynamics.
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Flawed monetary policy
— 2025-09-03
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Unless explicitly encoded, contextual nuance is hard for AI to grasp.
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Signal and noise
— 2025-01-10
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This sensationalism has turned the news landscape into a carnival of hyperbole where nuance goes to die, and context and substance are sacrificed at the altar of clicks.
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A grotesque chimera
— 2024-09-05
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Yet all of this seems to matter little in a social media universe where nuance, history and facts count for little.
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The Baloch question
— 2024-08-30
Synonyms
fine distinction, subtle distinction/difference, shade, shading, gradation, variation
Antonyms
brightness, information
Curator example
“he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect”
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About this vocabulary section.
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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