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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
Brian Grubb,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The future north campus remains a contest of differing visions.
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Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Dark visions and secrets quickly come to light, as Mārama grapples with her heritage in the shadow of colonizers.
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William Earl,
Variety,
26 June 2026
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where values and visions of America as inclusive or exclusive are communicated to young people.
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Derek H. Alderman,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The Wolves have paid luxury tax the past two seasons and have no visions of a three-peat, sitting a comfy $26 million below the tax line after the dust settled Tuesday night.
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John Hollinger,
New York 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
Noun
The man cannot help himself, visions be damned.
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Brian Grubb,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
The future north campus remains a contest of differing visions.
—
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Dark visions and secrets quickly come to light, as Mārama grapples with her heritage in the shadow of colonizers.
—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 June 2026
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where values and visions of America as inclusive or exclusive are communicated to young people.
—
Derek H. Alderman,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The Wolves have paid luxury tax the past two seasons and have no visions of a three-peat, sitting a comfy $26 million below the tax line after the dust settled Tuesday night.
—
John Hollinger,
New York 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visions
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As the nation turns 250 years old, USA TODAY decided to create a time capsule, not of items but of dreams Americans hold for the country’s future.
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Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their 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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Surprisingly, this is not entirely where the film is going; a little before the halfway mark, the Minions mess up yet again (leaving a vacuum, one imagines, the Three Stooges will soon fill).
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Bateman acknowledged that bringing a fan-favorite novel to life comes with high expectations, since every reader imagines the characters differently.
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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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The loss threatened the summer learning session, but on Sunday, the community stepped up at an impromptu fundraiser that raised spirits and funds.
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As for cosmic weather this week, the planets align on June 28, igniting our adventurous spirits and libidos, eager to live life in the moment and sojourn onward!
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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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Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
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Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.
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Typically, ghosts show up in literature when something that has been repressed escapes and becomes everyone’s problem.
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This bed and breakfast is said to be haunted by more than a dozen spirits, including the ghosts of Civil War soldiers and a woman who once owned the early 1800s home.
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