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imagination

[ih-maj-uh-nay-shuhn] / ɪˌmædʒ əˈneɪ ʃən /


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It captured the imagination of football fans everywhere, because it seemed so difficult for anyone outside the 'Big Six' to get even close to being champions.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“New Roadster is beyond movies, beyond imagination, beyond human, yet still made by humans on Earth,” Tesla CEO Musk wrote in a post on X on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

“And so it takes imagination, and I think that’s much, much harder.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As with his mother, who wrote tall tales during his Northern Irish youth, Cohn resorted to literary imagination and exaggeration to bring the story to life.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Either it was her imagination, or Frankenforde smelled deliciously of cake.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Later that day, The Times asked visitors to share their impressions of a museum that, until now, has lived largely in the imaginations of fans and in abundant social media posts online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

There is a point at which viral dancing videos and AI-generated clips of the Cat in the Hat become something potentially more sinister, with real-world consequences beyond their impact on teenage imaginations.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

That song helped me find that maybe there was a little river of romance in their imaginations in that moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Miss Mortimer was charmed by their talent for make-believe and praised them for the fine condition of their imaginations.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood


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