imagine
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The others are 6-7 and 6-5, so imagine the little brother in the front yard doing the Oklahoma drill, a legendary one-on-one football drill from years ago that tested toughness via collisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Price, who runs The Lovespoon Gallery, expects local people to come out in force on Saturday, adding: "I imagine the streets will be lined and we'll give her the send off she deserves."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I pushed an idea to its extreme, but in so doing, I had to imagine the endless possibilities of our current, complicated modern day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"As migrants, we've already been through some tough things back in our own country, and you never imagine something like this would happen on top of that," said the 28-year-old construction worker.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I pull Bo closer, nuzzling into his fur, and I close my eyes and let myself imagine a day when it won’t be like this.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 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
Written by Jimmy Webb and released in 1968, it tells the lonely story of a laborer in Kansas who imagines the voice of the woman who got away humming down the endless telephone wires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It imagines a world on the brink of the revelation of proof that non-human intelligence exists and has been hidden in plain sight.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
She imagines her footprints sinking invisibly through the streets and the sidewalks, below the condensed archaeology of the city to underground plains of rich alluvial clay.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Other days I've imagined hearing her drinking water and her footsteps.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
If it’s richly imagined Oklahoma skulduggery you seek, stick to TV’s “Tulsa King.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I had hoped the bangs would repel him, but my new facial accessory failed to be a punctuation between us in the way I’d imagined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lazkani, who studied dramatic arts in Damascus and never imagined playing a political role, learned of her appointment two days before it was announced publicly.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The half-bored grin on the man’s face was what I imagined Jeff’s might look like someday.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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One unquestionable element is its success in raising the low estimation of Green Lantern created by a particularly clumsy movie, simply by imagining possibilities in much bigger terms.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
None of this requires imagining a secret plan passed between statehouses.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
They were like, “Dream big because the dreams that you’re imagining can be your reality, especially if you work hard enough towards it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It's not even a case of imagining it, it's happening in front of our own eyes," Professor Euan Ritchie tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
I put Mr. Patterson in a pair of white shorts with skinny white legs sticking out and I gave Mrs. Patterson a big sunhat and a bathing suit, imagining Moxie bottles in the sand.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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