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conjure
verb as in appeal to, implore
Example Sentences
When most people think of Greece, they conjure images of ancient Athens or idyllic islands.
Butchart conjures up a world where a tokenized securities portfolio could offer exposure to real-world assets — like a wind farm or a piece of fine art — to which gaining exposure was never possible previously.
To summarize, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top federal healthcare official, conjured up a connection between circumcision and autism via a relationship between circumcision and Tylenol that is unsupported by the research he cited.
“I feel like I have a natural tendency to poke people at regular intervals with something surprising, a sound they hadn’t expected, like ‘whoosh,’ or an image that they hadn’t ever conjured before.”
Cohen, who plays bullied employee Otis, conjured up his character’s love for peanut M&M’s, while Temple, who plays the girlfriend of one of Manchester’s friends, saw her character as a hairdresser.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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