as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
visualized herself executing a perfect dive
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Recent Examples of visualize
To help spot the differences, NASA offers an animation depicting the lunar phases for 2026, allowing sky watchers to visualize the moon throughout the year.
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Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
The firm builds exposure maps that visualize an individual’s digital vulnerabilities — linking addresses, relatives, dormant emails, old domains, platform accounts, leaked identifiers and dark-web traces into a single cohesive picture.
—Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
The team began by creating a 3D model of the device to visualize and refine the placement of its parts.
—Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025
The practice of loving-kindness often involves quietly reciting to oneself several traditional phrases designed to evoke metta, and visualizing the beings who will receive that loving-kindness.
—Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
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Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
The firm builds exposure maps that visualize an individual’s digital vulnerabilities — linking addresses, relatives, dormant emails, old domains, platform accounts, leaked identifiers and dark-web traces into a single cohesive picture.
—Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
The team began by creating a 3D model of the device to visualize and refine the placement of its parts.
—Joanna Goodrich, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025
The practice of loving-kindness often involves quietly reciting to oneself several traditional phrases designed to evoke metta, and visualizing the beings who will receive that loving-kindness.
—Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
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More than a cat-and-mouse game between him and them, the series uses that procedural framework to imagine, in psychologically astute and electrifyingly strange ways, an entire world altered by The Beauty.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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Following a major dining room and menu upgrade, a popular Connecticut Italian restaurant is now popping with meatballs Nonna likely never imagined making.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2026
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In late 2020, Farr had a wildly vivid dream envisioning a black car driving through the Colombian mountains, en route to a monastery.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Wuthering Heights was always envisioned as a kind of fantastical fever dream—a contemporary take on a ’50s soundstage melodrama that gleefully mixes historical references with glitzy modernity.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
10 Jan. 2026
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Ready to see what all of the hype is about?—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Therapy is shifting from the classic dyad of therapist-client to the new triad of therapist-AI-client, see my discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Eventually, as not pictured by Izzy, 315-pound right tackle Mike McGlinchey wandered over and sat next to his quarterback, too.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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Williams, who is the men's creative director for the fashion house, was not pictured in the photos.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Visualize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visualize. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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