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visioning

verb

present participle of vision

as in imagining

to form a mental picture of visioned her idea of the perfect meal

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Many people spend years imagining exactly what retirement will look like.

— Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The film begins with the religious question of whether young Ilyas is allowed to shave the bristles on his upper lip, leading to a consistent self-consciousness, which appears (and re-appears) as Ilyas imagining extreme close-ups of hair and skin.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026

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The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

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And the actor believes there is a power in seeing only the before and aftermath of the killing.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
There was the guy Daemon stabbed through the ear, and then the smelly killers Gwayne sniffed out, and now Ser Adrian, who took a knife to the throat within seconds of seeing Aemond.

— Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

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A lot of times, the job involves dreaming about the next possibility while also sometimes being met with the possibility that your best days are behind you.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 31 July 2026
That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

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Where to Eat and Drink The Salt Lick BBQ is likely what many out-of-state visitors imagine when picturing Central Texas-style barbecue—and its backstory is just as flavorful as its brisket.

— Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026
Jones argues that the standard template many people imagine when picturing a dragon—wings, reptilian scales, and sharp teeth—is a kind of composite of humanity’s earliest predators.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026

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