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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
J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The pioneering visions of Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi laid the foundations for a vibrant discipline that has grown to encompass everything from gas storage and catalysis to energy and environmental technologies.
—Stavroula Alina Kampouri, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Globally, all kinds of left-of-center observers—liberals, socialists, social democrats, Cuban and Soviet-aligned actors—found something in the Nicaraguan experiment that resonated with their own visions.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Wearable visions of the future that make exploration look effortless, elegant, and even heroic.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
With the future in mind, community members had their most direct opportunity at a late September town hall event to voice their visions of the future.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Everything from your creative visions to your romantic affairs is suddenly intensifying.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
These heady numbers on a global scale made Impossible Creatures a must-have Hollywood property, with visions of youth-appeal movies, merchandise and maybe theme park attractions dancing in the heads of studios looking for new IP.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
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That credo reasserts itself as Polly begins to be haunted by visions of her loved ones.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
The pioneering visions of Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi laid the foundations for a vibrant discipline that has grown to encompass everything from gas storage and catalysis to energy and environmental technologies.
—Stavroula Alina Kampouri, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Globally, all kinds of left-of-center observers—liberals, socialists, social democrats, Cuban and Soviet-aligned actors—found something in the Nicaraguan experiment that resonated with their own visions.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Wearable visions of the future that make exploration look effortless, elegant, and even heroic.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
With the future in mind, community members had their most direct opportunity at a late September town hall event to voice their visions of the future.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Everything from your creative visions to your romantic affairs is suddenly intensifying.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
These heady numbers on a global scale made Impossible Creatures a must-have Hollywood property, with visions of youth-appeal movies, merchandise and maybe theme park attractions dancing in the heads of studios looking for new IP.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visions
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Though her identity is not at first known to Benedict, the woman turns out to be Sophie Baek, a secretive maid with big dreams.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
13 Oct. 2025
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And dreams, especially ones decades in the making, don't end without a fight.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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In Good Boy, Indy investigates strange noises and ghostly apparitions in the remote country house.—
Laura Martin,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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In winter, breath crystallizes in the air, and the animals resemble pale apparitions in an otherworldly landscape of snow and ice.—
Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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This is lovely writing in which the author weaves information about the history of maps and how they are made, and Dolores imagines her parents in love in their little apartment where her mother/aunt took care of her as a baby.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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In the first episode, Adeline shows Ed a comic book with graphic Holocaust imagery and imagines Ilse Koch, a Nazi, played by Krieps.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Dominant culture echoed with racist fantasies like of Birth of a Nation (1915; based on a novel and play of 1905) and Gone With The Wind (novel 1936, movie 1939).—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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Walking tour explores the controversies, feuds and spirits that still haunt the grounds of this river city.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Nolet family has been perfecting the art of spirits since 1691, when the first copper still fired up in Schiedam, Holland.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
15 Oct. 2025
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The company envisions the generator serving a variety of applications, from powering remote communities and critical infrastructure to ensuring energy resilience for military operations and data centers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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Shaping the Future of Logistics Looking ahead, Kumar envisions a future where AI and data analytics help small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses compete on equal footing with global leaders.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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In pieces on patriotism as a kind of madness, on the long history of Polish and Russian colonizations and cultural appropriations of Ukraine, on the ways communities fantasize and share their daydreams, and others, Janion creates wormholes between past and present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ellen retreats to her room and daydreams of her father, who understood his headstrong daughter.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Yes, Sparks believes in ghosts.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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Despite a few ghosts, Billy's has remained a popular spot, with pizzas and burgers being the go-to items on the menu.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Visions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visions. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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