imaginary
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Dahlia Lithwick: If you put “American politics as usual” in some imaginary halcyon past at 1 and Watergate at 10, where’s this slush fund scandal registering for you?
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Then Flores had Colemenares show him how to field a ground ball with an imaginary ball in class.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
She recreated an imaginary garden for them by bringing in pictures and lavender oil, playing the sound of birdsong and describing a walk through lavender fields.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
A gladiator, it seems, moved up the ranks—often through training and victories in the arena—“like a trainee orator moving from imaginary speeches to those of the courtroom.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
This confusion between what was real and what was imaginary shadowed the Mona Lisa investigation.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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