imagination
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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
The scientist believed that capturing the public's imagination would help attract financial backing.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He was talking about the limits of prediction, and suggesting that a technology that is beyond our imagination doesn’t register as a technology at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I have no visual imagination, and so I can’t see actors when I’m writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“My imagination is leaping wildly tonight! Yet family trees do sometimes bear unexpected fruit.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Area manager at Auction House Notts & Derby, Jonathan Way, said he believed it was a "creepy doll" left standing in the corner of a bedroom that had captured people's imaginations.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
An exhibition at the Met Cloisters reveals the enduring fascination with hybrid beings in both Europe and the Americas, and similarities in the imaginations and concerns of vastly different cultures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
There are copious cognitive benefits and endless possibilities for where their imaginations can run, unbound by the limiting confines of a tablet.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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