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Recent Examples of unobservable
Trademarks and other intellectual properties, private equity and various other assets whose value must be determined using unobservable inputs are called level 3 assets.
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Tomas Milar, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
The same goes for the gizmos that enable new parents to observe their little ones in previously unobservable ways.
—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
Its underlying technologies were developed in the 1990s by the United States Naval Research Laboratory with the aim of providing a safe, unobservable method of communication to American spies.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2016
Tomas Milar, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
The same goes for the gizmos that enable new parents to observe their little ones in previously unobservable ways.
—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
Its underlying technologies were developed in the 1990s by the United States Naval Research Laboratory with the aim of providing a safe, unobservable method of communication to American spies.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobservable
Adjective
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But about two-thirds of the way through, Roofman makes a quiet, almost imperceptible shift toward melancholy.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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The imperceptible do-si-do of my matter and yours in the air between us.—
Betty Gilpin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.—
Christopher P. Davey,
The Conversation,
6 Oct. 2025
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But The Morning Show does it so needlessly and so predictably, hitting all the standard tropes of this kind of indistinct othering and then tossing the subplot aside.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Both white beans and chickpeas have neutral flavors that meld well with oats, and mashing them up beforehand will make their texture almost unnoticeable.—
Audrey Bruno,
SELF,
25 Sep. 2025
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For the most part, Toronto’s tweaks are unnoticeable.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In a video which was widely shared on social media, Jones could be seen giving a thumbs-up to the crowd from a box before raising his middle finger and pointing lower in the crowd while mouthing a few indiscernible words.—
Julia Andersen,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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Not to mention, its navy hue and relaxed fit are almost indiscernible from Roberts and Seyfried’s looks.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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