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imaginary

[ih-maj-uh-ner-ee] / ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr i /


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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

“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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