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imaginary

[ih-maj-uh-ner-ee] / ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr i /


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“It feels like playing the most incredible imaginary game,” Clark says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The idea of writing a biography of an imaginary character, Ms. Hall concedes, “may seem eccentric.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Even more surprising is the way these imaginary figures seem to behave.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

But just as often, these turn out to be children’s fantasies — wide-eyed dreams of imaginary futures, tempered by real life.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

“You call this waiting?” the imaginary elks seemed to scold.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

“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

I cannot say; it was all a bundle of imaginaries.

From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

In other words, we have a justification for representing imaginary quantities by lines perpendicular to the line on which we represent real quantities, as is done in the graphic treatment of imaginaries in algebra.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith


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