imagine
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“So many days have gone by, it’s hard to imagine that she’s still alive, but we’re having hope that she is,” Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s easy to imagine Netflix sourcing TV shows and films made from all over the world, with less reliance on California.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It is hard to imagine PEN would explain away the exclusion of another disfavored minority’s books as a question of “business or taste.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"You'd never imagine it could happen," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I can’t imagine carrying something like that on a Glitch,” I said, eyeing the camera.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
Mr. Fountain imagines that the U.S. has been overrun by a weird medical epidemic known as the Weeps, which causes people to spontaneously break into tears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
He imagines people will give them names, as they have done for older non-humanoid robots.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
He imagines billows of smoke as the brave German infantry attack with all their might.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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One of the hardest parts of losing a child “is that you’re not just grieving the person, you’re grieving the future you imagined with them,” said Los Angeles-based grief specialist Carla Harvey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
He never imagined that a refereeing call against him would become an international incident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
I also saw a life, a career, and a marriage I treasured, and imagined all of the ways in which having a child would compromise what I had spent decades building.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
As a child, he almost imagined these people were family friends.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
I imagined we were out to gather stones for his wall, that the sliver of moon was a bit of the sun, and I started to run.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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National Geographic is already imagining the “Romeos” of prehistory.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
There isn’t a lot of wit involved in imagining what orange slime could do to a location, and a lot of veteran talent gets thrown into the service of a lot of kindergarten humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
When we’re daydreaming and ruminating and self-reflecting and mentally time-traveling or imagining other people’s thoughts, we’re not present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
But even before the modern internet came to be, techies and sci-fi writers were already imagining what the web was going to look like.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
“Am I imagining things because I’m frightened? But it wasn’t like that! It was real. Oh Betsie, was it a kind of vision?”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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