observable
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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
“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
Their research proposes that the universe includes additional dimensions that are not directly observable.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
By comparison, the total number of atoms in your body is about 1028, and the total number of elementary particles—protons and neutrons and electrons—in the observable universe is about 1080.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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