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Recent Examples of unobservable
The same goes for the gizmos that enable new parents to observe their little ones in previously unobservable ways.
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Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
Ars Video The vast bulk of the Universe will remain forever unobservable to traditional telescopes.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
With enough data on the correlations between skulls and faces, Nilsson notes, a neural network could pick up patterns that are unobservable to even the keenest human eye, vastly improving predictions of facial structure.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
These differences in neural activity suggest that autistic individuals may rely less on mental state information, which is unobservable and abstract, when processing social interactions and more on tangible, concrete details.
—Trystan Loustau and Liane Young, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
That sets the ultimate limit of what’s in our observable Universe, and whatever part is unobservable, beyond that, can only be inferred, not directly measured.
—Big Think, 14 June 2024
The formula could be used to infer what was really happening during a collision, even during the unobservable interim moments.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
All are using shifts in gravitational waves – the ripples created in spacetime (yes, really) – to observe previously unobservable things and events in the universe.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
For Davies, the potential to test the effect could open up exciting new doors for both theoretical and applied physics, further validating nigh-unobservable phenomena predicted by theorists while expanding the tool kit experimentalists can use to interrogate nature.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2022
Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
Ars Video The vast bulk of the Universe will remain forever unobservable to traditional telescopes.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
With enough data on the correlations between skulls and faces, Nilsson notes, a neural network could pick up patterns that are unobservable to even the keenest human eye, vastly improving predictions of facial structure.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
These differences in neural activity suggest that autistic individuals may rely less on mental state information, which is unobservable and abstract, when processing social interactions and more on tangible, concrete details.
—Trystan Loustau and Liane Young, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
That sets the ultimate limit of what’s in our observable Universe, and whatever part is unobservable, beyond that, can only be inferred, not directly measured.
—Big Think, 14 June 2024
The formula could be used to infer what was really happening during a collision, even during the unobservable interim moments.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
All are using shifts in gravitational waves – the ripples created in spacetime (yes, really) – to observe previously unobservable things and events in the universe.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
For Davies, the potential to test the effect could open up exciting new doors for both theoretical and applied physics, further validating nigh-unobservable phenomena predicted by theorists while expanding the tool kit experimentalists can use to interrogate nature.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobservable
Adjective
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The hood protects your neck like the Wu-Tang Clan, while thumbholes, dropped shoulders, and imperceptible seams ensure an unimpeded, chafe-free range of movement.—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 May 2025
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Researchers showed that by altering just a small number of pixels in the image—changes imperceptible to human eyes—the AI model misclassified the panda as a gibbon.—
Hessie Jones,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Also, look for imperfections in them, such as distorted hands or feet, unrealistic facial features, indistinct or irregular faces, unrealistic accessories such as glasses or jewelry, inaccurate shadows, watermarks, voice call lag time, voice matching, and unnatural movements.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Look for subtle imperfections in images and videos, such as distorted hands or feet, unrealistic facial features, indistinct or irregular faces, unrealistic accessories such as glasses or jewelry, inaccurate shadows, watermarks, voice call lag time, voice matching, and unnatural movements.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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At the time, unnoticeable hair loss felt like the least of my worries.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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Except that could be slim enough to be unnoticeable in the hand, but thick enough to handle a bigger cell inside.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Naomi Watts has long been an actor who excels at these kinds of scenes where beauty and anguish are but indiscernible, where a pursed lip can tell you a heartbreaking tale about a woman’s limited options laid before her.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2024
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The disposition of the cart and the boy before Patel’s reach – including whether the child might have been falling and whether the cart clipped anything – is indiscernible because Patel’s back obscures both from the camera.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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