supersensitive

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Using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors, it’s possible to read that field the way a compass needle does and match those variations to pre-existing maps of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Her mother described her as “a very high strung and supersensitive girl who does not seem to understand how to cope with the rebuffs of this crass world.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

Researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave an elusive dark-matter candidate with no place to hide.

From Nature • Oct. 4, 2020

The group spends most of its time cultivating a form of mind reading that is, depending on whom you ask, either a supernatural aptitude or “a supersensitive variety of tact.”

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019

Very well, I'd become a supersensitive confirmer of their misconceptions, and just to hold their confidence I'd try to be right part of the time.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison