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- adjective Not
palpable ;impalpable .
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Examples
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That particular tumor -- invisible and unpalpable -- was nearly an inch in size.
Lauren Cahn: Newsflash: Breast Cancer Sucks, and You Can Die From It 2008
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It was merely that the scene had recalled to him anew some of those unpalpable truths which the optimist is always much too ready to forget.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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Our Republic finds itself to - day assailed by a monster as dangerous, unpalpable, soft, horrible but strong -- strong as hands of iron.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865
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These calces therefore, when mixed with the enamel flux, are melted in crucibles, once or oftener, and the deep coloured opake glass, thence resulting, is ground into unpalpable powder, and used for enamel.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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