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as in dreams
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
a vision of the future that no other film director had ever created
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as in apparitions
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
believed he'd seen a vision of his mother
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as in imagines
to form a mental picture of
visioned her idea of the perfect meal
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Recent Examples of visions
USA Today, 13 May 2026
Protect your peace and your long-term visions.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
Mozart has a lot of diehard fans with very specific visions of their idol so expect some pushback again.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
A lot of trial and error, and the entire record was like a triumvirate, a ping-pong game uniting three strikingly different visions.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
These 10 songs represent her ideal playground, a space bright and broad enough for her dreamlike visions and mutable voice to take whatever shapes her imagination allows.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
Over the last decade, both parties have racked up big electoral wins and taken big swings at implementing their partisan visions.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
Lauren, Kawakubo, Yamamoto—they’re a powerful trinity, all possessing unshakable visions that continue to shape culture.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 May 2026
Their shared trip gradually turns into a confrontation with their own lives, relationships and visions of the future.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 May 2026
Noun
The young military leader who claimed to receive divine visions was honored as a saint in 1920.
—USA Today, 13 May 2026
Protect your peace and your long-term visions.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
Mozart has a lot of diehard fans with very specific visions of their idol so expect some pushback again.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
A lot of trial and error, and the entire record was like a triumvirate, a ping-pong game uniting three strikingly different visions.
—Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
These 10 songs represent her ideal playground, a space bright and broad enough for her dreamlike visions and mutable voice to take whatever shapes her imagination allows.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
Over the last decade, both parties have racked up big electoral wins and taken big swings at implementing their partisan visions.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
Lauren, Kawakubo, Yamamoto—they’re a powerful trinity, all possessing unshakable visions that continue to shape culture.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 May 2026
Their shared trip gradually turns into a confrontation with their own lives, relationships and visions of the future.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visions
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Around him, siblings, lovers and friends face CIA threats, tourist-rental anxieties, drug-dealing producers, secret desire and lottery dreams in a choral portrait of love, family and frustrated escape.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Each gets stage time to speak at length about their dreams, both realized and broken, and regrets.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 May 2026
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The museum site has been a paranormal hotbed for decades, with sightings of apparitions, security camera footage capturing items flying off shelves, as well as experiences from staff members and visitors.—
Gregory Harutunian,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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There certainly seem to be apparitions in this music, some presence apart from the four musicians and the throngs of fans, which is intensified by the visceral collision of so many sounds.—
Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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There’s probably a smart, chilling film to be made about the terrors of smothering and relentless adoration — one imagines what Rod Serling would have done with something like this — but this isn’t really that film.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Near the end of the piece, Amodei imagines a scenario in which AI has rendered the current economic system irrelevant.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Known for its signature vibrant psychedelic prints, the designs are summer personified, enticing fans with fantasies of wearing them by the pool, Aperol spritz in hand.—
Diana Tsui,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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Activist spirits might dismiss this emphasis on the purely sonic as a strategy of avoidance, although the likes of Feizabadi and Kourliandski can’t be accused of sitting idly by.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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There are flavored vodkas like strawberry and blueberry, agave spirits and gin.—
Emily M. Olson,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
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That disconnect between what a person envisions and what their phone actually records, eventually became the founding thesis behind WayShot.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Star Catcher envisions its power-node system as complementing nuclear generators rather than supplanting them, according to Rush.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
12 May 2026
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And while an optimistic sort, El Tipo Este harbors few illusions.—
Bill Kopp,
SPIN,
13 May 2026
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This planet strips away illusions, forcing transformation through endings, intensity and uncomfortable truths.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
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What is Wuthering Heights without ghosts?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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His journey will unravel past ghosts and future misdeeds.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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“Visions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visions. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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