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Example sentences for: palpable

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The 6-week time point was chosen as representative of the period of preneoplasia, because the majority (>80%) of the rats had no palpable tumors at this stage (Fig.
Joint effusions were visible and palpable above the left knee, and there was significant loss of smooth motion of the knee, passively performed.
There has been a palpable decline in literacy in America over the last 30 years.
The softness and hardness at issue here are not, of course, the words having literally to do with the physical properties of the same name, but rather the higher, metaphorical qualities associated with the words: that is, hard in the sense of "stern," "uncompromising," "grim," "tough," "realistic," "verifiable," or "physically palpable"; and soft in the sense of "moderate," "subjective," "subject to emotion," "simple," "idealistic," "weak," or "physically immaterial."
Lucky audiences who caught Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it was shelved when Richard Carpenter served the producers with an order to cease and desist exhibition) began by laughing at this elaborately posed, soft-rock femme, only to discover by the climax that the cultural forces that were eating at her (and that kept her from eating) had grown heartbreakingly palpable.