imaginary
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With both sides sensibly resolved to avoid chasing imaginary grand bargains, the two leaders could focus on their common interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Children who scored high on the creativity test, however, produced imaginary stores no more creative than children who scored lower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the number was doing something more interesting than keeping track of imaginary thrift.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Ella gave herself an imaginary budget of £1,000 each day to spend on imaginary purchases, which "scratched the itch" of shopping without the cost.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Whoever told Booth about the president’s plan to attend the play that night had unknowingly activated in his mind an imaginary clock that began ticking down, minute by minute.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
“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
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
Hence, an easy method for the representation of such imaginaries is based on the principle of analytic geometry and a system of co-ordinates.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Poncelet throughout his work makes continual use of the foregoing theories of imaginaries and infinity, and also of the before-mentioned theory of reciprocal polars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
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