tangible
adjective
capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
tangibly
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a word derived from
tangible.
Example Sentences
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"It helps me escape reality for a bit, being scared about something that is tangibly scary, like monsters or bats," she added.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
As Amazon soars, nowhere is Bezos’ astronomical wealth more tangibly displayed than in his $500 million real estate empire.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
One arena where the Catholic Church can tangibly affect events is U.S. domestic politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
“Whenever a song of hers comes on at our party, people start screaming, they’re jumping onstage. That feeling of tangibly belonging to a community is what Futch was born out of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
