imagines

present tense third-person singular of imagine

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Recent Examples of imagines Zvyagintsev’s story, like Chabrol’s, imagines the tragic fallout of a husband discovering his wife’s infidelity. David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026 At the end, a segment imagines Rosso in 2255, with humanity living on a distant world ruled by AI. Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 Mohsin Hamid, Exit West Exit West imagines the refugee crisis with a powerful magical realist twist. Chloe Benjamain, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026 Through the eyes of a new generation searching for its place, Burgundy opens the doors to a world rarely seen from within, and then imagines its way further inside. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 The film imagines a colorful, family-friendly realm concealed just under the surface of video games themselves, populated by a covert guild of guardians tasked with keeping each title operating and preserving every player’s journey. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026 The musical imagines Seurat’s creation of the famed painting and his relationship with his lover and muse, Dot, before jumping forward a century in its second act. Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imagines
Verb
  • After a period of over-the-limit warming, the new strategy envisions getting back below the limit by ending fossil fuel use and developing some kind of way to suck industries' carbon dioxide out of the air.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The gentle track sees John reflect on parenthood and envisions watching his son grow up.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • JPMorgan's trading desk thinks that Warsh will have to toe a fine line for the stock market to rise.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Yet one of China’s leading robot startup founders thinks there are still a few years before robots truly break into the public consciousness.
    Angelica Ang, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Basic infrastructure, something everything else assumes is there and arguably closer to a right than a product.
    Satya Vandrangi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Hulu sports comedy stars Glen Powell as Russ Holliday, a disgraced former college football star who assumes the fake identity of Chad Powers — donning prosthetics and all — to have a second chance at a football career.
    Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The company sees the rocket becoming a workhorse launcher of small to medium-size satellites down the road, and its infrastructure supports that vision.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Kendra Ramsey, executive director of the California Bicycle Coalition, sees the expansion of Waymo as a safety benefit, rather than a concern.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Roach believes the perfect lead hook comes down to the timing.
    Chris McKenna, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • With a growing portion of the population born after the attacks, Spade believes preserving the individual stories has become more urgent.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart.
    Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Its founder, Fabrizio Di Amato, conceives it not as a hotel brand in the conventional sense but as the beginning of a wider world—a connected collection of destinations where Italian hospitality, design and culture merge.
    Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 21 June 2026
  • Isaac prays to God on her behalf, God answers the prayer, and Rebekah conceives.
    Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • See the Republican Party, which considers Islamophobia as one of its main characteristics.
    Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The grievances extend to what Algeria cites as Emirati support for Khalifa Haftar in Libya (where Algeria backs the government in Tripoli) and Emirati involvement in the Sahel, both regions Algiers considers its own sphere.
    Tareq Alotaiba, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Imagines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imagines. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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