imagine that
idiom
—used to express that something is remarkable
This tree is more than 300 years old. Imagine that!
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Even the choir-singing quarterback couldn’t imagine that.
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Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2024
While some progressives imagine that Trump voters in the countryside largely own auto dealerships and pleasure boats, a glance at Rusk, Mingo, or Choctaw—where per capita incomes range roughly between $21,000 and $32,000 per annum—shows the poverty of this conceit.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Yet to imagine that an 85-year-old filmmaker, who’s suffered great loss and experienced great love, who’s spent a lifetime thinking about history’s heroes and villains and thinkers, and who’s willing to risk it all for one last magnum opus can’t really be considered naive.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
Now imagine that pro football has been the country’s defining leisure activity for 150 years.
—Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024
To better understand this concept, imagine that a transmission line shorts to ground or a generator trips due to a lightning strike.
—Benjamin Kroposki, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2024
Little could anybody at the time imagine that the Salon would be forgotten while the ‘upstarts’ would fundamentally alter the course of art history.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
Others imagine that a new leader of a new government could offer real change — not in the next month or two of war, but through a gradual shift in the status quo.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2024
While some progressives imagine that Trump voters in the countryside largely own auto dealerships and pleasure boats, a glance at Rusk, Mingo, or Choctaw—where per capita incomes range roughly between $21,000 and $32,000 per annum—shows the poverty of this conceit.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Yet to imagine that an 85-year-old filmmaker, who’s suffered great loss and experienced great love, who’s spent a lifetime thinking about history’s heroes and villains and thinkers, and who’s willing to risk it all for one last magnum opus can’t really be considered naive.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
Now imagine that pro football has been the country’s defining leisure activity for 150 years.
—Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 4 May 2024
To better understand this concept, imagine that a transmission line shorts to ground or a generator trips due to a lightning strike.
—Benjamin Kroposki, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2024
Little could anybody at the time imagine that the Salon would be forgotten while the ‘upstarts’ would fundamentally alter the course of art history.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Now imagine that sweaty nausea in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
Others imagine that a new leader of a new government could offer real change — not in the next month or two of war, but through a gradual shift in the status quo.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Imagine that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imagine%20that. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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