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Although it’s still hard to imagine The Rolling Stones without their steadfast timekeeper, Jordan is certainly up to the task.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Well, Mr. Smil advises, mark out a distance of 41 feet in your house or backyard, then imagine a human spanning it in a single second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at Forex.com, said: "One can easily imagine the situation spiralling quite rapidly."

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

“I imagine there’s some people out there who don’t know what the word ‘incumbent’ means,” Moore said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

I can’t imagine there’s a single word of our conversation she didn’t overhear from the kitchen, ear pressed to the door.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He imagines himself as a migrant: “I lived outside of Dallas / Rundown shack of a place / I was handcuffed and arrested / It don’t make no sense.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Written by Jimmy Webb and released in 1968, it tells the lonely story of a laborer in Kansas who imagines the voice of the woman who got away humming down the endless telephone wires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

The film imagines a world on the brink of a revelation: proof that non-human intelligence exists and has been hidden in plain sight.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

He imagines two observers in a field pacing out the distance between them, then leveling their eyes on a far-off landmark: a sailing ship or a smokestack.

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

Rolando Tamayo, the owner of a newly opened Cuban bar just south of downtown Curitiba, said he had never imagined leaving home until he took a job as a manager of Havana’s luxurious Hotel Nacional.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“My imagined audience is of people in America who are not addicted to politics but are addicted to good citizenship and the idea of fulfilling their civic virtue,” Stirewalt said in a recent interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

But on that day, I imagined that trunk filled with fireworks.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

He imagined telling Mr. Vincent about the letters, and having Mr. Vincent shake his head dismissively and say, “Come on, Jonah. Stay within the realm of reality.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

National Geographic is already imagining the “Romeos” of prehistory.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

While imagining scenarios, he came up with an arresting image for the Trojan horse, “listing over in the sand” in a way that intentionally echoes the Statue of Liberty in “Planet of the Apes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Last year a Dreamer variant worked out how to collect diamonds, external in the video game Minecraft, by imagining future scenarios to help it with decision making.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The most satisfying aspect of Ms. Waldman’s handling of the period detail is her insistence on imagining life from the viewpoint of the servants’ hall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

“What Resilience discovered on his mission has laid the groundwork for us to continue imagining what it might look like for a human to land on Mars.”

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga