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imaginary

[ih-maj-uh-ner-ee] / ɪˈmædʒ əˌnɛr i /


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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

“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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