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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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It is hard to imagine anyone went home disappointed, no matter what price they paid.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

So, one could imagine what he must think today about a real fed-funds rate of roughly 50 bps — more than 300 bps lower.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Just imagine: having to stop right in the middle of the season like that. It's unbearable for a company like ours," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

In their experiment, Zou and her co-authors asked 329 participants to imagine they were in a grocery store checking out, and the cashier asks if they want to donate to Unicef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I couldn’t imagine what she meant by that and wondered if I was supposed to ask.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Dickinson imagines pondering a woman’s “workmanship” and remarking “‘This was last Her fingers did’ – / Industrious until –.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I am not the fan that the NFL pictures when it imagines its fans.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

But a new research note imagines much of those unfilled jobs will go to humanoid robots.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Valery Zaluzhnyi, who was removed as army chief in 2024, predicted that Drapatyi would "have a very difficult time. Much harder than he imagines".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

She imagines him extending his thick neck to look into the house, the coat on the rack, the crumbs of bread on the kitchen table.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Jacob Tremblay embodies a young Kaczynski almost exactly as I have imagined him, minus the smiling and the forging of his mother’s signature.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Redesigned by Mike Moser Studio, the newly imagined space is all clean lines and warm tones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Just one offseason later, however, Maye has regressed more dramatically than anyone could have imagined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“This is the real-deal version of AI that we’ve always imagined for ourselves,” Altman said during his keynote at OpenAI’s annual conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

For a moment, he imagined that the glass would give way under his touch.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

She may also have to devote precious time to the practical task of showcasing the condo for sale, and emptying years of living that would prevent a buyer from imagining themselves living there.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Maybe I’m imagining things, but considering that the performances of both teams were equally awful, everyone is really blasting the Chargers while making lots of excuses for the Rams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Like the pink elephant you can’t stop imagining when testing yourself to not think about such a thing, VCs can’t shake the idea of the “Trilicorn.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Often, the challenge is not imagining how life could produce a signal, but understanding all the ways nature might produce something similar without life.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

If only I could stay near our fire, picturing horses clopping down Smith Street, Brooklyn, in the orange flames, imagining Maggie home with us.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff




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