impalpable
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Is it matter, a physical thing, or is it more like energy, something impalpable?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
A sense conundrum: blue as Summer sky Yet hazy, thin, impalpable, a clair- Obscur of dreamy stuff some latter-day Tech-savvy alchemist might think to brew Or strange sea-beast secrete within its shell.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2022
Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
The smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing impalpable
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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