imperceptible
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But the opposite, reflective face bears an image incised in finely engraved lines that under normal conditions is virtually imperceptible to the naked eye.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
"Traditionally, the intense heat of firing destroys any biological residue. However, our technique has been able to reveal fingerprint ridges that would otherwise remain imperceptible."
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
The weirdly urgent task lies in asking ourselves whether we have become unwitting accomplices in the imperceptible attempts to make some people unseeable, and why we might be willing to accept that.
From Slate • May 21, 2025
If you look at the map below the change is almost imperceptible.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2024
It is tempting to think of this as some kind of giant continent-sized car crash, but of course it happened with imperceptible slowness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing imperceptible
The Crucible
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The Old Man and the Sea
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A Wrinkle in Time
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