imagine
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“You would imagine they built a trust with discretion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
People often imagine Yellowstone as a sleeping “supervolcano.”
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Because they cannot imagine an autumn in which they don't pause to admire the ginkgo at its finest, swathed in a feathery coat of gold.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Today he is 79, and wears the calamities of the past more lightly than most of us could ever imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
We will just have to imagine the picnic, that’s all.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
But a new research note imagines much of those unfilled jobs will go to humanoid robots.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Hands Upon the Wheel” imagines stealing her daddy’s car and taking off down the road—but this is not Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Joshua Kushner and his family, one imagines, will not starve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Down in that kipple-infested old apt, watching Buster Friendly on her TV set and quaking with fear every time she imagines someone coming down the hall.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Instead, they are the subject of an imagined plotline in which the military or some group of elites has access to extraordinarily advanced technology that can quickly and painlessly cure the human body of anything.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
That process could help explain why large objects do not remain in the strange combinations of states allowed by quantum mechanics, such as the dead-and-alive situation imagined in Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
By the time I was able to discuss the results with him, he had already imagined the worst-case scenario, and was inconsolable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Could you have imagined still doing this now when you founded the label?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The tortoise’s sleepy gaze was fixed ahead, and while there was no change in his dull expression, Clare did not think he imagined that the shell-dweller grew irritated.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
A boy from Watts stares at the ocean, imagining ancient Greek boats sailing across the Pacific and his father in a toga and sneakers, proudly hoisting a trident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We’ve been imagining quite a lot,” Ternus said to the hundreds of gathered media in the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Often, the challenge is not imagining how life could produce a signal, but understanding all the ways nature might produce something similar without life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The financial industry is very good at imagining market pain.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Part of me was listening and part of me was imagining what the money would do to help my parents, what it would buy.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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