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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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"It's going to rain a lot and people just don't come anymore -- imagine how vulnerable our businesses are," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The explosive and heart-wrenching tell-all, released this week, has reportedly ruffled feathers inside Buckingham Palace, and its not hard to imagine why.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Hunt says that in the early days of her Test career, it wasn't possible to imagine such a problem.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was crazy to imagine what I could purchase with that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I can’t imagine there’s a single word of our conversation she didn’t overhear from the kitchen, ear pressed to the door.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He imagines Meta has been working on the camera-free glasses for several years, and the current backlash over privacy provides "fantastic timing" for their release.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But a new research note imagines much of those unfilled jobs will go to humanoid robots.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Hands Upon the Wheel” imagines stealing her daddy’s car and taking off down the road—but this is not Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Joshua Kushner and his family, one imagines, will not starve.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Just for a second, she imagines it—letting go.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

"I thought I imagined it. But I called out, and they answered."

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

He has imagined apocalyptic scenarios like AI data centers snapping up land once used for agriculture and causing mass-starvation or AI engineers altering the earth’s atmosphere, making it inhospitable to humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Local Fish: Piscatorial Perceptions” is all about fish: big ones and little ones, real and imagined, tasty and dangerous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Instead, they are the subject of an imagined plotline in which the military or some group of elites has access to extraordinarily advanced technology that can quickly and painlessly cure the human body of anything.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

She imagined herself in front of everybody, a poem in hand, and felt anxious again.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

You increase it through metacognition, through imagining multiple possible explanations, and through experimenting in small ways that let you learn without losing everything.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Moreover, one reason for all the imagining from without is the paucity of figuration from within Sunni Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

A boy from Watts stares at the ocean, imagining ancient Greek boats sailing across the Pacific and his father in a toga and sneakers, proudly hoisting a trident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Often, the challenge is not imagining how life could produce a signal, but understanding all the ways nature might produce something similar without life.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“You’re just imagining things,” I muttered under my breath.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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