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Recent Examples of imagination Dolled Up Halloween This aesthetic continues to capture imaginations, with marionette costumes showing strong search growth lately. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025 Chastain, meanwhile, is the disruptor who stomped onto the scene in 2022 and surprised everyone — slamming contenders on the track, throwing punches off of it, riding walls into glory that baffled his competitors but simultaneously captured the collective race fan’s imagination. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2025 It was generally acknowledged that this was a World Cup without a genuinely outstanding team, after Brazil in 1970 and the Netherlands in 1974 had captured the world’s imagination with forward-thinking football. Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025 Smith shooting the moon—twice, potentially—represents a resurgent breed of executive compensation that has captured the imaginations of a growing number of CEOs. Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for imagination
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Noun
  • But when talking about fashion, creativity has to be the leading force and the most relevant force.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival is filled with cinematic creativity from award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Today, the company builds structures with each one shaped by the same ingenuity and care that defined its first.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That ingenuity extends to creating scales for what has yet to be measured.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In all of these places, the broad availability of talent—whether as founders, knowledge workers, or highly skilled blue-collar workers—is viewed as one core element of the corporate ecosystem’s success.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In conversation, Blunt’s admiration for Johnson is clear, and so is her interest in making sure other people recognize his talents and capabilities.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Imagination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imagination. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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