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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

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

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

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




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