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“I’ll sit in my room like this,” Dean continues, leaning her head forward as if it’s resting on a desk between a pair of imaginary speakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

One involves an imaginary 16-year-old, Lily, who recently got her license and crashes while driving in her mom’s car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“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

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

The theorem is here referred to partly on account of its bearing on the theory of imaginaries in geometry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various