observable

Example Sentences

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Though r-star is not directly observable, many of the leading models calculate it to be lower than the current fed-funds rate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

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

One of these regions would become what we now see as the observable universe.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking