observable

Example Sentences

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The JPMorgan analysts said overall 98 percent of the observable oil traffic through the strait was Iranian, averaging 1.3 million barrels a day "in early March".

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Coaches call this the “All‑22” view, because all 22 players on the field are simultaneously observable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

The collapse of dark matter cores is especially intriguing because it may leave observable signatures, including possible connections to black hole formation.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Thus Beeckman insisted in 1629: ‘In philosophy I allow nothing that is not represented to the imagination as if it were observable.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton