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imaginative

[ih-maj-uh-nuh-tiv, -ney-tiv] / ɪˈmædʒ ə nə tɪv, -ˌneɪ tɪv /


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It’s inventive, creative, imaginative without rules — the way artwork perhaps used to be in the middle ’80s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

It has been designed to encourage pre-schoolers to talk to it and carry out imaginative play.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

That’s not a very imaginative assessment of what’s happening.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

Cooling their heels in a Venetian jail in 1755, Giacomo Casanova and the prisoner in the cell above him contrived one of the more imaginative escapes in the annals of criminology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

I knew this about Julia Bishop: She was a miracle—artistic, imaginative, and gifted—and she also liked to mess with me.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith




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