imaginary

Ella gave herself an imaginary budget of £1,000 each day to spend on imaginary purchases, which "scratched the itch" of shopping without the cost.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

At Ren's Beihai flat, Huanle danced around to imaginary music, seemingly carefree.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Out on a wooden platform extending over San Diego’s Mission Bay, young women sway from side to side, riding an imaginary wave to the beats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

And every time, Claude returned to its imaginary chalkboard and began scribbling away again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Then the piano music would start to play, and she’d clap to the beat for us as we would each skip, skip, skip, and leap across the imaginary puddle.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

“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

Of the world surrounding him which refused definitions he said, "because there is no image there is nothing except imaginaries."

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

The theorem is here referred to partly on account of its bearing on the theory of imaginaries in geometry.

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