imaginary
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At Ren's Beihai flat, Huanle danced around to imaginary music, seemingly carefree.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Out on a wooden platform extending over San Diego’s Mission Bay, young women sway from side to side, riding an imaginary wave to the beats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Place your hands out as if they are pressing on an imaginary wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But in the treasures of “The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments” there is something else: the “enduring fascination” of the possible, no less important for being imaginary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I stare at the imaginary pitcher and announce the play-by-play.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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“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
These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Of the world surrounding him which refused definitions he said, "because there is no image there is nothing except imaginaries."
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
I cannot say; it was all a bundle of imaginaries.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
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