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Recent Examples of impalpable The principle consists in mixing, with the sewage, quantities of lime and clay, combining with the carbonic acid of the fecal matters to form carbonate of lime, in an impalpable powder. Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 June 2022 This is the primordial key point, the impalpable idea that will finally turn out to be the engine of your business. Xavier Preterit, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022 And so, with 24 regular-season games remaining for the Utah Jazz after the All-Star break, hard-and-fast conclusions about this team remain frustratingly elusive and impalpable. Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022 But there’s an argument to be made that the colorless, soundless, impalpable structures of symbols and relationships of science are far more revealing. Kc Cole, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021 Afterward, as in Vienna, property relations were forever altered, which had an impalpable but unmistakable effect on attitudes. New York Times, 29 June 2021 The full album as well features similar, almost impalpable, differences. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2021 In these distant and impalpable moments, I am touched. Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021 Appearing in all four games this season, Grossman has displayed an impalpable ability for generating first downs on crucial drives for UAB this season. Evan Dudley, al, 5 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impalpable
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Adjective
  • Dark matter, meanwhile, refers to the mysterious and invisible substance that seems to hold galaxies together.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Essay My Mother's Disappearances Lisa Coxon Children like me, whose parents suffer from mental health issues, often become invisible ourselves.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That usually means some kind of reward in line with that performance, whether the reward is tangible or intangible.
    Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The impact of this is far from intangible as the goal is not simply to challenge leaders.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The key to achieve the color, however, is an imperceptible shade-match.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 Dec. 2024
  • These changes to a piece’s pixels are imperceptible to humans, but reliably fool machines.
    Garrison Lovely, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Picture red tuna fish caught that morning cooked in a subtle mix of local spices and topped over fresh linguine or meatier cuts of fish served like steak with fresh vegetables plucked from nearby farms.
    Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But planet-scale warming is probably affecting weather basically every day, even if the impacts are subtle.
    Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Impalpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impalpable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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