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imagine

[ih-maj-in] / ɪˈmædʒ ɪn /




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“So many days have gone by, it’s hard to imagine that she’s still alive, but we’re having hope that she is,” Walker said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

It’s easy to imagine Netflix sourcing TV shows and films made from all over the world, with less reliance on California.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

It is hard to imagine PEN would explain away the exclusion of another disfavored minority’s books as a question of “business or taste.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

"You'd never imagine it could happen," he said.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

“I can’t imagine carrying something like that on a Glitch,” I said, eyeing the camera.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

Mr. Fountain imagines that the U.S. has been overrun by a weird medical epidemic known as the Weeps, which causes people to spontaneously break into tears.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

He imagines people will give them names, as they have done for older non-humanoid robots.

From BBC May 28, 2026

He imagines billows of smoke as the brave German infantry attack with all their might.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

He never imagined that a refereeing call against him would become an international incident.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

I also saw a life, a career, and a marriage I treasured, and imagined all of the ways in which having a child would compromise what I had spent decades building.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

As a child, he almost imagined these people were family friends.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

I imagined we were out to gather stones for his wall, that the sliver of moon was a bit of the sun, and I started to run.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

National Geographic is already imagining the “Romeos” of prehistory.

From Science Daily 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

When we’re daydreaming and ruminating and self-reflecting and mentally time-traveling or imagining other people’s thoughts, we’re not present.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

But even before the modern internet came to be, techies and sci-fi writers were already imagining what the web was going to look like.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

“Am I imagining things because I’m frightened? But it wasn’t like that! It was real. Oh Betsie, was it a kind of vision?”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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