palpable
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Between the team’s low-scoring style, its palpable stress, and the crushing weight of three consecutive late-season collapses, the final weeks of Arsenal’s league campaign turned into a bruising slog.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
At the precipice of an odyssey that will challenge the half-lives they’ve lived so far, the sisters’ anger is palpable.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
His passion for Los Angeles, classic films, and Cinespia’s devoted audience was palpable.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Hearts blew a gasket in trying to get level; their intensity and desire to score was so palpable that you could reach out and touch it.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
In its absence it left an aura, a palpable shimmering that was as plain to see as the water in a river or the sun in the sky.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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The Giver
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Grade 10, List 1
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