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She claimed that if you smoke very little, there will probably be no detectable effect on your unborn child.
Drinking water in the area is safe and has no detectable levels of the chemical.
Some cancers grow and spread before the primary tumor becomes detectable on ultrasound.

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Finding and discovering
ascertain
break (fresh/new) groundidiom
breakthrough
bring something to lightidiom
catch someone red-handedidiom
fossick
found
geocache
geocaching
get hold ofidiom
homing
pinpoint
plumb
red-handed
rediscover
rediscovery
refind
refound
sniff
suss

Examples of detectable

detectable
It is the signature from land surfaces that will yield the most detectable evidence for photosynthesis.
In realizing this, we learn that the environment of bodies on the earth's surface is anisotropic and that this is detectable independently of projectiles' motion.
These patterns were also detectable in the immature stages (data not shown).
There is a slight but statistically insignificant trend for more badly fragmented oocytes to have no detectable mitochondria.
Proteins belonging to the same suprafamily would not be expected to be detectable from sequence information alone.
However, these alterations were not detectable in the primary tumour, and rather must be categorised as transfection artefacts.
Of the 27 mice examined, eight had worms without detectable eggs in their faeces.
There was no detectable difference in the percentage of deer mice that ingested ants at the fox pen site and campground site.
The loss of genetic diversity in tree species is not easily detectable, because they may have originated from mating that occurred before habitat isolation.
Periodic testing showed no detectable nitrite concentrations, thus the results are reported as nitrate alone.
For allozymes, null alleles can be generated by mutations or deletions within a gene and thus do not produce any detectable protein.
This becomes difficult as odor packets become more sparse (due to source intermittency and diffusion below detectable levels) and more dispersed (due to flow meander).
This benefit, however, is partly mitigated by neutralizing antibodies that were detectable in 38% to 42% of patients by year 3 (27;46).
The narrow strip minimized the potential bias against less detectable species.
This indicates that prevalence is, at least in part, threshold detectable dependent on intensity rates.
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