as in incorporeal
not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch electrical energy is completely intangible

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Recent Examples of intangible The home itself is nothing spectacular, but the background is an intangible that is hard, if not impossible, to put a value on, House said. Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025 Here’s another intangible reason why diversity makes the military stronger. John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025 In the agentic economy, the most valuable assets are often intangible: algorithms, proprietary data sets and teams of machine learning experts. Prakash Pasupathy, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 For example, under existing law, a team owner paying $1.6 billion for a franchise where $1.5 billion is intangible goodwill could deduct that $1.5 billion over 15 years. Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for intangible
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incorporeal
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  • 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

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“Intangible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intangible. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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