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impalpable

[im-pal-puh-buhl] / ɪmˈpæl pə bəl /


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Is it matter, a physical thing, or is it more like energy, something impalpable?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Many physicists did not like it because they called it impalpable and a little bit mystical,” Nesteruk told Salon in a phone interview.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

A sense conundrum: blue as Summer sky Yet hazy, thin, impalpable, a clair- Obscur of dreamy stuff some latter-day Tech-savvy alchemist might think to brew Or strange sea-beast secrete within its shell.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2022

Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022

And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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