imaginary
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Dahlia Lithwick: If you put “American politics as usual” in some imaginary halcyon past at 1 and Watergate at 10, where’s this slush fund scandal registering for you?
From Slate • May 26, 2026
“It was my first attempt at an autobiographical thing,” Diamond told Rolling Stone of this encomium to an imaginary childhood friend.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
She talks to imaginary friends out loud, the same ones she talked to when she was a girl.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
This unstable, indeterminate flickering sensation is what Mr. Lerner wants to evoke as he maneuvers his stories between the polarities of the real and the imaginary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The imaginary strings holding my heart in place start to snap.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Vocabulary lists containing imaginary
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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Common Core Grade 5, List 4
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