inapparent

Definition of inapparentnext

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Adjective
  • Without them, some important objects can remain hidden forever; a waste of human effort and money — and much of that sponsorship cash comes from taxpayer funds and the generous gifts of donors who trust the museum to share its collection with its community.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Supporters say her work helped broaden conversations around art, sexuality and censorship, while preserving pieces that might otherwise have remained hidden or discarded.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • An evolving cross-cultural icon For Nakamachi, seeing how fortune cookies evolved into an unlikely cultural icon in a foreign land is inspiring.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The magazine’s second editor was nonetheless a Gernsback ally, the unlikely electrical engineer and former editor of Scientific American Thomas O’Connor Sloane.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Jalen Brunson knows any variation of offensive plays featuring both him and All-Star teammate Karl-Anthony Towns can be difficult, nearly impossible for opposing defenses to guard.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Thank you to the public servants wrestling with impossible decisions.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Frank often mocked Gus’s improbable revelations, as when Gus swore a saint had appeared to him through his bedroom curtains one night.
    David Mcgrath, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • For that to happen, however, the Knicks would need to win four of their final games — not impossible, but improbable — and the Celtics, winners of eight of their last 10 games, would need to lose four of their final six.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • At that point, something terrible, something on the scale of the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2014, is not inconceivable.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The camera quality on Artemis, let alone the ability to livestream the views, was inconceivable during the Apollo era.
    Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Chino Pacas’ implausible success story starts on the streets of Guanajuato, Mexico.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Such an outcome is not implausible.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Inapparent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapparent. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.

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