imagine
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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
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"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
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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
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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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