impalpable
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“Many physicists did not like it because they called it impalpable and a little bit mystical,” Nesteruk told Salon in a phone interview.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
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
The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2020
From where he stood he could see the whole valley through an impalpable mist that rose from the earth the night rain had soaked.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing impalpable
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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Dracula
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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