observable

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The JPMorgan analysts said overall 98 percent of the observable oil traffic through the strait was Iranian, averaging 1.3 million barrels a day "in early March".

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Coaches call this the “All‑22” view, because all 22 players on the field are simultaneously observable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

To be clear, this is an invented statistic with no basis in reality, which ignores the observable fact that humans find each other attractive for all sorts of different reasons.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

Our observable universe sits inside one of these bubbles—or several of them that got linked together.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife