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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
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Ideas need crisp notes as the temperamental Moon in your 9th House opposes imaginative Neptune in your 3rd House, bringing visions and messages together.
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Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2026
The massive spending and heated rhetoric reveal a great deal about the contours of Silicon Valley's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.
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Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
22 June 2026
Two distinctly and significantly different visions showed themselves in recent days.
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Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Waning enthusiasm for SpaceX’s stock this week could serve as a reality check for those buying into Musk’s grandiose visions.
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Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
18 June 2026
While established luxury houses still dominate overall sales, Printemps sees growing consumer interest in designers with distinctive creative visions and strong narratives around craftsmanship and production.
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Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026
Bores’ race is now a proxy battle for two competing visions of how government should treat the technology industry and artificial intelligence.
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Matt Brown,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
For me, writing starts with tableaux, with visions.
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Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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McKay and her visions are the inspiration behind Sarris’ latest work.
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Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Ideas need crisp notes as the temperamental Moon in your 9th House opposes imaginative Neptune in your 3rd House, bringing visions and messages together.
—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 June 2026
The massive spending and heated rhetoric reveal a great deal about the contours of Silicon Valley's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.
—
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
22 June 2026
Two distinctly and significantly different visions showed themselves in recent days.
—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Waning enthusiasm for SpaceX’s stock this week could serve as a reality check for those buying into Musk’s grandiose visions.
—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
18 June 2026
While established luxury houses still dominate overall sales, Printemps sees growing consumer interest in designers with distinctive creative visions and strong narratives around craftsmanship and production.
—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026
Bores’ race is now a proxy battle for two competing visions of how government should treat the technology industry and artificial intelligence.
—
Matt Brown,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
For me, writing starts with tableaux, with visions.
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Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visions
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Big dreams may crash down to earth when daily reality gets involved.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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Today, the massive complex attracts paranormal investigators who report apparitions, voices, and other unexplained phenomena.
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Why then, when discussing body image after weight changes, is our culture reaching for the language of vexing apparitions and death?
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Through Quasar Markets, Steven E Orr imagines a world where technology removes the mundane, reduces friction, and gives people more room to think, create, connect, and live with intention.
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Human creativity imagines what does not.
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Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
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Iraq was losing the war that would create the state of Israel, a humiliation that challenged fantasies of Arab unity and conquest.
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Thank you for a plethora of news on June 17 that didn’t crush our spirits.
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As one of the world’s largest spirits conglomerates, the company certainly had access to some choice, well-aged stocks.
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The Falcon 9 flew a whopping 165 times in 2025, after all, and SpaceX envisions launching Starship thousands of times per year when that massive rocket comes fully online.
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Katalyst envisions having a fleet of spacecraft that can repair, refuel and upgrade satellites in need of help.
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Rustin and Epstein—who recently opened an intimate second space in London for Edel Assanti—were under no illusions.
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This lifelong Black Catholic bears no illusions about the sins of my church.
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Now adults and estranged, the siblings battle perception, reality, legacy and plenty of ghosts.
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Co-stars include Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard in the story of two fraudulent paranormal investigators who are forced to face real ghosts and the lies underpinning their business.
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“Visions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visions. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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