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as in imagining
to form a mental picture of
with certain flowers I instantly conjure up memories of our Caribbean honeymoon
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Slaves began imagining the possibility of freedom.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Hackers can then use the army of infected computers to launch DDoS attacks, which involve summoning waves of internet traffic to overwhelm a website, app or IP address to try and take them offline.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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The Brooklyn psych-folk artist’s 2025 debut, newly reissued by AD 93, is dissonant, ghostly, and otherworldly, summoning complex emotions with sparse tools.—
Vrinda Jagota,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2026
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All of which leads one to wonder, what is Griffin really envisioning for his final act?—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Cubs aren’t envisioning fully using Suzuki as the DH to get him back quicker.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Historian after historian getting up and talking about the evidence that proved that there was a Holocaust, and also, of course, that David Irving had denied it.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Ritchson can been seen getting up, and the two shove each other.—
Austin Mullen,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
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He’s still based at Salt Lake City International, where his 20-year-old daughter works as a TSA agent, and says that seeing his former colleagues struggling is difficult.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Mar. 2026
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In terms of the commitment to doing a greater number of local shows, the idea is subscribers will be seeing more from their home countries, and more often.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
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The aircraft was built to fly above 70,000 feet, beyond the reach of enemy defenses, gathering intelligence in all conditions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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What began as a Reddit post of two chess players searching for people and a place to play quickly snowballed into what San Diego Chess & Social is now, a gathering space for games of all kinds.—
Madison Beveridge,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Matlin knows a little about dreaming big.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Sleep architecture maps out how a person transitions through different sleep stages, such as light sleep and dreaming (REM), as well as how sound affects someone during each of these different stages.—
Laura Kiniry,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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At night, Martinez lay awake picturing an agent in the middle of the road raising his gun.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
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The trio created fake Minnesota temporary drivers’ licenses using false names, with each license picturing one of the Thomases, federal prosecutors said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Conjuring (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjuring%20%28up%29. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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