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With both sides sensibly resolved to avoid chasing imaginary grand bargains, the two leaders could focus on their common interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Can repeatedly ordering imaginary food satisfy a real craving?

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Children who scored high on the creativity test, however, produced imaginary stores no more creative than children who scored lower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The number was doing something more interesting than keeping track of imaginary thrift.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Fred was still plucking imaginary strings to the looping rhythm.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

“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

In other words, we have a justification for representing imaginary quantities by lines perpendicular to the line on which we represent real quantities, as is done in the graphic treatment of imaginaries in algebra.

From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

It will be recollected that the expression number and the correlative epithet numerical were at the outset used in a wide sense, as extending to imaginaries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

I cannot say; it was all a bundle of imaginaries.

From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc