imagine
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"To explain it, imagine a mug and a doughnut," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
As far as Mandel’s dream cast, she says, “I think Natalie Portman would be an incredible Ari,” but quickly follows with “I can actually imagine a lot of people in that role.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
It is hard to imagine any book rendering this scene more vividly than the cinematic version, but Mr. Levin has managed the task with panache.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"I could only imagine the pressure on Martin O'Neill - I know what it's like in Glasgow if you are beaten by Rangers twice," former Scotland defender Willie Miller said.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Trembling, I imagine my body like the blanket.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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The figure helps introduce the exhibition’s exploration of humanity’s relationship to nature; Albuquerque imagines the character as the maker of her landscape projects and considers her an alter ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
He imagines Meta has been working on the camera-free glasses for several years, and the current backlash over privacy provides "fantastic timing" for their release.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I am not the fan that the NFL pictures when it imagines its fans.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Celia imagines her dead husband staring up at the shuttered windows, carrying a late-model electric broom.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Then came the news that changed his life in ways he never could have imagined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
When his elbow healed, he dominated at the plate and on the mound in ways not even Babe Ruth could have imagined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it til now.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Patricia Harmon, an Army veteran who was awaiting the return of her sailor son, said she imagined that life aboard the ship had been hard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The house was everything I’d imagined it would be and more.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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You increase it through metacognition, through imagining multiple possible explanations, and through experimenting in small ways that let you learn without losing everything.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
A boy from Watts stares at the ocean, imagining ancient Greek boats sailing across the Pacific and his father in a toga and sneakers, proudly hoisting a trident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We’ve been imagining quite a lot,” Ternus said to the hundreds of gathered media in the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Sometimes I was convinced she did, but there were moments when I felt like an idiot just imagining things.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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