detect
verb (used with object)
to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act.
undetectable
-
a word derived from
detect.
Example Sentences
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Modern plastic surgery is so sophisticated as to be undetectable, even when intended to make you look like a different person from the one you started out as.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
According to investigators, the thieves went to the libraries to consult rare and valuable works, photographing and measuring them, and returned later to replace them with virtually undetectable copies.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Under extreme assumptions, these emissions would change the global temperature by thirty-four one-thousands of one degree Celsius—an effect that would be undetectable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Yet while the structure is designed to be undetectable from the inside, it’s a full-blown metallic colossus on the outside — visible from the surrounding L.A. freeways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
When the handkerchief was folded, the writing was undetectable.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
