imaginary
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Ella gave herself an imaginary budget of £1,000 each day to spend on imaginary purchases, which "scratched the itch" of shopping without the cost.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
At Ren's Beihai flat, Huanle danced around to imaginary music, seemingly carefree.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Squat — or hinge — backward, moving your arms forward as you lower your hips into an imaginary chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The imaginary collaboration also contains a historical wrinkle: Washington never actually lived in the White House.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jack had even made imaginary stats for the superhero game.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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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
Hence, an easy method for the representation of such imaginaries is based on the principle of analytic geometry and a system of co-ordinates.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Poncelet throughout his work makes continual use of the foregoing theories of imaginaries and infinity, and also of the before-mentioned theory of reciprocal polars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Of the world surrounding him which refused definitions he said, "because there is no image there is nothing except imaginaries."
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
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