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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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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

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

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

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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