Example Sentences

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All subjects were born to African-American and Latino mothers and had detectable levels of CPF in their umbilical cord blood.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Early results showed that 59% of patients had no detectable cancer after completing immunotherapy and undergoing surgery.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

Any detectable tonal noise, he added, must be considered an unreasonable threat to public health.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Or maybe a faraway civilization wants to communicate and can build detectable technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

They seemed to speak cooperatively, and if a sentence was more than a few words long, one would start and the other finish, with no detectable pause between.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs