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impalpable

[im-pal-puh-buhl] / ɪmˈpæl pə bəl /


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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

But how the squishy, pinkish-gray, wrinkled mass of the physical brain gives rise to these impalpable experiences remains a mystery.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2022

The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020

Each was blind to the other’s being, Ged as baffled by impalpable shadows as the shadow was baffled by daylight and by solid things.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin