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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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It is certainly hard to imagine the club spending £55m on a 29-year-old again like they did when they signed forward Yoane Wissa from Brentford last summer.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

I can’t imagine what benefit her customer was getting out of the experience.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

“We’re running out of everything that you can imagine, on a daily basis,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

In the abiding spirit of the Americans who believed in and built that promise, this year’s series on how to think about constitutional meaning is limited only by what you, the people, can imagine.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

I force myself not to imagine Bo by my side.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

"The new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have a very difficult time. Much harder than he imagines," former army chief Valery Zaluzhny -- removed in 2024 -- said.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

In it, she imagines the sacrifice of loving a child enough to send her away to keep her safe.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

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

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

“I take a piece of writing and a character, real or imagined, and research as much as I can, and then imagine it and try and breathe life into a person,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

At the time, Ridgeley could never have imagined that a small act of kindness in a Hertfordshire classroom would eventually help change lives on the other side of the world.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

One might prefer the selfless virtue exemplified by Washington, the yeoman simplicity imagined by Jefferson.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Throughout his career, Neill pitted himself against creatures both real and imagined — or, even more often, somewhere in-between — to reveal humanity’s foibles in the face of the freakish and fantastic.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

I imagined that Irene had forbidden Russell to see me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

While imagining scenarios, he came up with an arresting image for the Trojan horse, “listing over in the sand” in a way that intentionally echoes the Statue of Liberty in “Planet of the Apes.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

They cannot serve as the foundation for imagining worlds vanished from existence.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

There isn’t a lot of wit involved in imagining what orange slime could do to a location, and a lot of veteran talent gets thrown into the service of a lot of kindergarten humor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

But even before the modern internet came to be, techies and sci-fi writers were already imagining what the web was going to look like.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

And I couldn’t help but smile, imagining what a thrill it would be for the lucky detective who got to dress up in one of Mr. Bangs’s clever disguises and portray the wandering book peddler.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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