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 Adjusting for one-time items, including related to the value of intangible assets, Home Depot reported earnings of $4.68 per share. Melissa Repko, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025 In Trump’s progression from brick-and-mortar developer to hawker of intangible projections of himself, his N.F.T.s were another milestone. David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025 But creating a place where people want to walk also has intangible benefits. Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The series is a vivid meditation on grief and memory, and the power of each of these intangible forces to consume and define us. Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for intangible
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incorporeal
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  • In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025

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“Intangible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intangible. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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