imagine
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And knowing how to ask isn’t as complicated as we imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Man, imagine 10, 15, 20 years to come, what we going to have," Duwai said after a fishing trip one night yielded only tiny, juvenile fish.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Perimenopause’s journey from little-understood phase before menopause to the subject of every ad on social media for women of a certain age was quick—and impossible to imagine without the internet.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
I read “Whalefall” when it was first published and couldn’t imagine how the book could be turned into a film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
“I’m sorry this Flash chose you. I really am. I can’t imagine how hard this is for you, La.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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The figure helps introduce the exhibition’s exploration of humanity’s relationship to nature; Albuquerque imagines the character as the maker of her landscape projects and considers her an alter ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But one imagines that, somewhere between the second and third hundred, a person would pause to ask, “You sure you want 260 nuggets, hon?”
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Ms. Li instead imagines Adelaide’s coming of age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
She closes her eyes and speaks to her granddaughter, imagines her words as slivers of light piercing the murky night.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Martin O'Neill needed a win after his recent travails and this was a stroll in the park that he could not have imagined.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The novel then launches into the curator’s imagined chronicle of the medieval era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"We never imagined they were armed," said one of the people interviewed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The documentary format allows them to tell stories about monsters that aren’t imagined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
He imagined himself walking beside her to the bukshah pool in the evening, his hand on her mane, the cool breeze blowing in his face.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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He pressed forward and tried to calm his nerves by imagining himself in a hot bath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
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
But if she saw him, she must have convinced herself that she was imagining things.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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