imaginary
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The Tibetan culture on display in Shangri-La is mostly “an imaginary view of Tibet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Can repeatedly ordering imaginary food satisfy a real craving?
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ludicrously urged Americans to dress up for travel, he was referencing this imaginary age of girdles and silk-stockinged women dolled up like Veronica Lake.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 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
I am no Arabian scholar, though I can read and write and count imaginary sums.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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“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
I cannot say; it was all a bundle of imaginaries.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The theorem is here referred to partly on account of its bearing on the theory of imaginaries in geometry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
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