imagine
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Although it’s still hard to imagine The Rolling Stones without their steadfast timekeeper, Jordan is certainly up to the task.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Well, Mr. Smil advises, mark out a distance of 41 feet in your house or backyard, then imagine a human spanning it in a single second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at Forex.com, said: "One can easily imagine the situation spiralling quite rapidly."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Can you imagine being in that dressing room?"
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
But I couldn’t imagine texting Traveler and asking him if his Rachel was Rachel Allan.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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He imagines himself as a migrant: “I lived outside of Dallas / Rundown shack of a place / I was handcuffed and arrested / It don’t make no sense.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In it, she imagines the sacrifice of loving a child enough to send her away to keep her safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
It imagines a world on the brink of the revelation of proof that non-human intelligence exists and has been hidden in plain sight.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
Gogol imagines that it will be a party of hundreds filling up a vast space, the sort of party where he might arrive and leave undetected.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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I would never have imagined, nearly three decades later, that the Grand Theft Auto series would become the cultural juggernaut it is today.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Here is declamation as we might have imagined coming from a rhapsode, for Mr. McKellen brings grandeur to his reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
After a dismal start that saw 15 of his compatriots fall in the first round, he has carried British singles hopes further than anyone imagined, and dazzled the home crowd with his fighting spirit.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
One of the hardest parts of losing a child “is that you’re not just grieving the person, you’re grieving the future you imagined with them,” said Los Angeles-based grief specialist Carla Harvey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Duane continued explaining with as much dramatic flair as he imagined Magic would use.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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National Geographic is already imagining the “Romeos” of prehistory.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
While imagining scenarios, he came up with an arresting image for the Trojan horse, “listing over in the sand” in a way that intentionally echoes the Statue of Liberty in “Planet of the Apes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
There isn’t a lot of wit involved in imagining what orange slime could do to a location, and a lot of veteran talent gets thrown into the service of a lot of kindergarten humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Her concerns were dismissed, she says, and she was told she was "imagining it".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Then it gets worse, and I’m imagining the blonde agent curled under my goose-feather comforter, cuddling my stuffed panda bear.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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