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imaginative

[ih-maj-uh-nuh-tiv, -ney-tiv] / ɪˈmædʒ ə nə tɪv, -ˌneɪ tɪv /


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Though quoted as once saying that he’d never write a memoir, his “Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, published in 2014,” stitched together stories of his extraordinary life.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

Imaginative as these scenarios were, few people took them seriously.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Imaginative play with Barbies does the same thing: generations of children experiment with ways the world could be.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023

Imaginative and spooky, “You Are Not My Mother” shows just how frightening — and stigmatizing — a parent’s mental illness can be to a child.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Imaginative forecast of the future is this forerunning quality of behavior rendered available for guidance in the present.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.




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