detectably

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Glisters of moisture beaded all over the boy’s body: detectably nervous sweat, wells of proto-tears, the gurgle of mucus rising in the nose and throat.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022

Whenever I visited Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, the youthful energy and confidence of the staff was leavened by a detectably uneasy undercurrent.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2016

Whenever Mgn94020 is detectably transcribed, the genes on the opposite strand in its introns are not, indicating that its transcription may serve a regulatory function independent of the RNA transcribed.

From Nature • Mar. 15, 2014

But the quakes’ energy waves radiate across the planet, detectably passing through the core.

From New York Times • May 28, 2012

In parts of this area, the soil is detectably radioactive as far as six inches down, and the depth of penetration is slowly increasing.

From Time Magazine Archive