project onto
phrasal verb
projected onto; projecting onto; projects onto
: to believe or imagine that (one's ideas, feelings, etc.) are shared by (another person)
She projected her fears onto him.
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As the videos are projected onto the paper, the strings seem to vanish, leaving the paper to appear suspended in air.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
People are gonna project onto him, as well as watch to see what happens.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
If apocalypse has always appealed to the human need for narrative finality projected onto all of reality, the question is will there be another chapter, and another chapter, and another chapter, or rather if this is actually all that there shall be?
—Ed Simon
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
During a total solar eclipse, there’s a narrow path of totality projected onto Earth by the moon’s dark central shadow (its umbra).
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
People are gonna project onto him, as well as watch to see what happens.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
If apocalypse has always appealed to the human need for narrative finality projected onto all of reality, the question is will there be another chapter, and another chapter, and another chapter, or rather if this is actually all that there shall be?
—Ed Simon
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
During a total solar eclipse, there’s a narrow path of totality projected onto Earth by the moon’s dark central shadow (its umbra).
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Project onto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/project%20onto. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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