impalpable
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“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
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
The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020
Reviewing the 2014 production in The New York Times, Ben Brantley likened it to “a precise worldly expression of something impalpable and divine.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017
When there was a blizzard, needles of icy air blew in through the vents, elaborately protected as they were, and an impalpable dust of snow-motes fogged the air.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing impalpable
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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