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With its negative prefix in-, inaudible means the opposite of audible. What's clearly audible to you may be inaudible to your elderly grandfather. Modern spy technology can turn inaudible conversations into audible ones with the use of high-powered directional microphones, so if you think you're being spied on, make sure there's a lot of other noise around you. And if you don't want everyone around you to know you're bored, keep your sighs inaudible.
Examples of inaudible in a Sentence
James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The video stitches together shots of Dua laying down vocals, writing lyrics in a notebook and jamming out to inaudible beats.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2024
Does a German audience care about the [inaudible 00:04:15] of that system?
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
In the first video circulating all over social media, Gomez approaches Swift and Keller’s table, and can be seen whispering something inaudible that causes both of the other women’s jaws to drop.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024
The problem is that their motors cause electromagnetic interference on the same frequency bands in which AM radio operates, in some cases making the already fuzzy medium inaudible.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2024
Several right-wing social media users have gone viral as of late by claiming AMC has sought to sabotage screenings by evacuating theaters, making the audio inaudible, or shutting off the air conditioning.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 July 2023
As for Blunt, the Oppenheimer somehow sparked divorce rumors with husband John Krasinski over an inaudible red carpet conversation.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2024
The exchange was inaudible, however lip-reading fans on the internet are convinced that the Only Murders in the Building actress was telling Swift that the Kardashians star had said no to Gomez’s request for a photo with Chalamet.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024
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“Inaudible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inaudible. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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