detectable
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"Participants could not reliably identify whether infrasound was present, and their beliefs about whether it was on had no detectable effect on their cortisol or mood."
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
Any detectable tonal noise, he added, must be considered an unreasonable threat to public health.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
Because supernovae in distant galaxies usually do not produce detectable gravitational waves, some astronomers concluded that the event was likely an ordinary supernova unrelated to the earlier signal.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
Or maybe a faraway civilization wants to communicate and can build detectable technology.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“This records fluctuations of tension within the eye muscles. Simultaneous with the blush phenomenon there generally can be found a small but detectable movement of—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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