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All the colors, regardless of how nameable they were in English, were equally easy to discriminate visually from one another.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
But now, during a global pandemic, those nebulous anxieties hardened into something nameable.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2020
So the question is, what perceptual habits and patterns of consumption are we now acquiring that will be discernible and nameable only to observers a century from now?
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018
The unnameable tensions in the music became much more nameable.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016
Six hundred hands, meanwhile, will sign as they have sworn: six hundred save one; one Loyalist Abdiel, still visible by this sole light-point, and nameable, poor 'M. Martin d'Auch, from Castelnaudary, in Languedoc.'
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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