imagine
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As it turns out, the fantastical has much more grounding in reality than we ever want to imagine.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
I can imagine diehard Green Lantern fans firing up their rebuttals as they read this.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Price, who runs The Lovespoon Gallery, expects local people to come out in force on Saturday, adding: "I imagine the streets will be lined and we'll give her the send off she deserves."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
If you want to imagine time standing still, start at Burke’s Canoe Trips, which has been renting canoes and kayaks for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
His solution was to imagine his own ending.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
In his retelling of Homer’s epic poem, Nolan imagines Odysseus as a man haunted by the sacking of Troy.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Cinema seems to spring up wherever Mr. McElwee looks—in one quietly virtuoso sequence from just before his surgery, he films a neighbor assembling a large flower box and imagines it’s his own coffin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
In it, she imagines the sacrifice of loving a child enough to send her away to keep her safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Joey imagines what it would be like to hear Brahms, her favorite.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
McMenamin said he never imagined Skintown would be turned into a film and was proud to put his hometown and the essence of it on the big screen.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I had hoped the bangs would repel him, but my new facial accessory failed to be a punctuation between us in the way I’d imagined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If it’s richly imagined Oklahoma skulduggery you seek, stick to TV’s “Tulsa King.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Hassan Perez, a historian, former student leader and close collaborator of Castro, acknowledged that the centenary was arriving under "the most complex conditions that could have been imagined."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Who could have imagined that these two skills would be controlled from two different places in the brain?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
None of this requires imagining a secret plan passed between statehouses.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It's not even a case of imagining it, it's happening in front of our own eyes," Professor Euan Ritchie tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Crucially, the negative value of the weakly measured dwell time cannot be explained by imagining that only the front of the photon’s pulse gets through, unlike the time inferred from the arrival time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Just imagining what might be going on at the zoo this very minute was more than she could stand— all those grim-faced bears, hungry lions, and wild-eyed baboons.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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