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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

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

Afterward, as in Vienna, property relations were forever altered, which had an impalpable but unmistakable effect on attitudes.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2021

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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