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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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Located at the bottom of the world, it’s hard to imagine a place more closely connected to nature, where New Zealand’s Māori communities have long lived in symbiosis with the land.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

"It would be a mistake to imagine a youth movement or a Gen Z movement - these are only convenient myths for commentators."

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Quite frankly, it’s hard to imagine Netanyahu would miss the funeral.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

I can’t imagine what benefit her customer was getting out of the experience.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

If I close my eyes, I can see your smile and imagine you reading these words.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

"The new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have a very difficult time. Much harder than he imagines," former army chief Valery Zaluzhny -- removed in 2024 -- said.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 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

On the nostalgic piano ballad “Good Morning,” he imagines what it might be like to settle down somewhere “with a dog and a wife.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

He imagines people will give them names, as they have done for older non-humanoid robots.

From BBC May 28, 2026

She imagines a diminutive pianist, dressed in a tuxedo, playing inside the machine.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The Backrooms are an internet-created fictional setting imagined as an infinite network of empty, fluorescent-lit rooms.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, so Renaissance thinking went, were the cultural ancestors of the “West,” an imagined cultural space then beginning to take shape.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

It was the little curls I tucked behind her ears, the wispy strands that caught the sunlight, and all the ordinary moments I never imagined I’d miss.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Stupak credits Fedorov with achieving something no-one would have imagined possible ten years ago: dragging the sclerotic, rigidly inflexible military into the digital world.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

It was light and floaty, with thin shoulder straps, the type of outfit I imagined flappers with boyish figures wore for a night out at a speakeasy or a dance hall.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Until large language models came along, AI could not help with decisions like whether to buy Nvidia or SpaceX, since those require thinking through uncertainty and imagining future scenarios.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

They cannot serve as the foundation for imagining worlds vanished from existence.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

News, that some may have been thinking, but never imagining hitting the headlines.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

As for the contents of the Center, a cartoon by Ms. Chast provided a memorable visual taxonomy of old things in imagining a series of shops labeled “Antiques. Collectibles. Bric-a-brac. Garbage.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

The chivalrous puffin lost himself in imagining his heroic death, unaware that the great black-backed gull had descended from the sky.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el




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