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imaginary

[ih-maj-uh-ner-ee] / ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr i /


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The Tibetan culture on display in Shangri-La is mostly “an imaginary view of Tibet.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

However, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in London said the accusation was "imaginary and purely fabricated".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Ill-advisedly, Wladyka introduces imaginary sequences in which Haru invents dance numbers out of ordinary situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

So in the imaginary universe where this scenario plays out, aren’t we’re talking about 60 states or so?

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

A bemused Miss Mortimer opened her office door to find the Incorrigibles taking mock bows and curtsies before an imaginary audience, as if they had just concluded a successful opening night on the West End.

From "The Interrupted Tale" 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

These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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

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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