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
As the imaginary train whisks the puppets around the country, the show manages to build anticipation just by making the crowd wonder what comes next.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The writer bashes imaginary feminists who supposedly tell women that caring about appearance is “some kind of intellectual failure.”
From Salon • May 8, 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
An imaginary Rashida giggled as she popped one roshogollah after another into her mouth, devouring the whole pot that Naima had brought home from the sweet shop.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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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