conjures up
Example Sentences
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The phrase “Abstract Expressionist” conjures up hard-drinking, chain-smoking men arguing loudly in the male-dominated enclaves of the Cedar Tavern and the Club about what paintings can and cannot be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
The word conjures up visions of an inevitable market crash and triggers a highly emotional response.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025
"People want to look to the future, they don't want to constantly see those headlines in the papers that say 'Broadwater Farm' and then it conjures up all those negative images."
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
He conjures up evolutionary histories, stories of foreign species’ arrival and their effects on an ecosystem that is massively and continuously altered by human influence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
To many people the very word conjures up memories of choking on chalk dust and cowering in fear of a thwack on the knuckles from a spinster schoolteacher.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
