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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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Then, instead of the tell-tale metal frame of futons in your college days, this sturdy metal frame is imperceptible, but can be adjusted into four different positions, including the fully flat full-size bed.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
19 Sep. 2025
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By synthesizing data streams from multiple sources, AI can identify patterns and trends that would be imperceptible to human clinicians.—
Kent Dicks,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Were his character more precisely defined, Battle’s wail of feeling might carry you past the awkwardness of the songwriting, the nagging questions about what’s meant to be translucent or not, but here both character and emotion are indistinct.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Shrill treble joins the errant bass, making everything sound muddy and indistinct.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Aug. 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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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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Many plays, including shifts and rotating coverages and a variety of pressures, come out of indiscernible pre-snap looks.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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