imaginary
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In the hush of his office, John Francis Seymour is working what he calls “the levers of power” like a 53-year-old kid running an imaginary earthmover.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
She talks to imaginary friends out loud, the same ones she talked to when she was a girl.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
This unstable, indeterminate flickering sensation is what Mr. Lerner wants to evoke as he maneuvers his stories between the polarities of the real and the imaginary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Growing up in rural Canada, he turned his treehouse into an imaginary spaceship after seeing a photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar surface.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Strange, imaginary shapes flitted about in the gloom; eerie cries pierced the still air; trees and bushes reached out their branches to catch and scratch like living things with claws.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing imaginary
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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Common Core Grade 5, List 4
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