imaginary
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And there they are, host and guest, still standing in the same imaginary room, arguing about the dishes.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Even more surprising is the way these imaginary figures seem to behave.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Even though the goal came against his former club, Maddison celebrated with his trademark imaginary dart throwing motion before kissing the badge on his Spurs shirt.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Raise your pretend glasses, Kyle Juszczyk and Jake Ferguson, and chug the imaginary beverages of your choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
In the 1830s Gauss realized that each complex number—numbers that have real and imaginary parts, like 1 – 2i—can be displayed on a Cartesian grid.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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“We have to, as artists, find the courage to disrupt convention, practice the spreading of hope and cultivate new stories and imaginaries that challenge divisive binaries.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
“I love how he weaves in the African oceanic imaginaries, the long durée of African historical inter-relationships with the world, and with itself,” Owuor added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
Poncelet throughout his work makes continual use of the foregoing theories of imaginaries and infinity, and also of the before-mentioned theory of reciprocal polars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
It will be recollected that the expression number and the correlative epithet numerical were at the outset used in a wide sense, as extending to imaginaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Hence, an easy method for the representation of such imaginaries is based on the principle of analytic geometry and a system of co-ordinates.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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