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conjures (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of conjure (up)

as in imagines

to form a mental picture of with certain flowers I instantly conjure up memories of our Caribbean honeymoon

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as in summons

to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers managed to conjure up the courage to ask the boss for a raise

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The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
The show imagines communities centered on the Mississippi River, which flows through Minneapolis, and the installation echoes a riverbed, with platforms approximating islands.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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When the lawman asks for compensation for the fallen man’s widow, Cypher’s Frank Tanner summons a force to battle him.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
Gloria is a user, a poseur extraordinaire; her fluttery flamboyance, rooted in insecurity, summons another Gloria, the one from Sunset Blvd.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

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Acura envisions each of its next-gen vehicles arriving on new platforms that will be able to accommodate gas, hybrid, and, eventually, all-electric powertrains.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2026
SpaceX also envisions the site supporting missions beyond conventional satellite launches, including lunar and Mars missions and the deployment of satellites for its emerging orbital data center business.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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If Europe gathers substantially more unwanted clothing without creating that accompanying infrastructure, greater volumes could instead flow into reuse exports, downcycling, incineration or disposal.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026
Established in 2006, Music In The House gathers the nation’s music industry to salute leaders in music for both their artistic achievements and their broader contributions.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2026

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No country has marshaled those efforts like China, where the government sees Tibet, and its Himalayan borderlands, as critical to its national and energy security.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Wall Street sees new treatments as an untapped goldmine, full of consumers who are willing to pay out-of-pocket for better options, reminiscent of the boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

— Avalon Pernell, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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Petrarch pictures the ghosts of Homer and Ennius together, and Homer’s ghost points out to Ennius a solitary figure, Francescus, working on a great epic poem, Africa.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
And Trey pictures his dad still in the third base coach’s box for the Dodgers.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

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Hailing from humble beginnings in Greenwood, South Carolina, his experiences with football have always been centered around doing the impossible – dreams his father put in his head at an early age.

— Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
These rumors were never substantiated—but Harry did reference his mother’s California dreams in the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, per PopSugar.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026

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