visualize

verb

ˈvi-zhə-wə-ˌlīz How to pronounce visualize (audio)
Definition of visualizenext
as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of visualized herself executing a perfect dive

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Recent Examples of visualize Watching the telemetry system visualize changing solar conditions throughout the day became surprisingly addictive and genuinely useful during testing. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026 To help with visualizing a standard pour of wine, five ounces is a little more than a 1/2 cup of liquid. — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 27 June 2026 The Explorer integrates and visualizes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other government agencies and local weather stations. — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026 The studio acts as an intellectual bridge, using advanced rendering, motion graphics and rapid prototyping to visualize how content interacts with scale and materiality, Monday said, adding that design, therefore, no longer happens in isolation. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for visualize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visualize
  1. imagine
  2. envision
  3. see
  4. picture
Verb
  • If one or two other states matched our output, imagine the boasting Trump could do, legitimately, about the economy.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • One is to look for hypothetical superstructures called Dyson spheres, which were a familiar concept to Kardashev as they had been imagined by American physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Definition of imagine
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  • The debt stems from a contract signed about 25 years ago, when Diablo Grande was envisioned as a much larger development.
    — Nina Burns, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • The latest revision of the bill would authorize the supplemental payments as a one-year program, instead of recurring annual checks as envisioned in the first draft.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
Definition of envision
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  • Mercedes-Benz Stadium might never again see two comebacks like the ones engineered by Messi in Atlanta.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • She’s seen during a dance rehearsal, a silly social media clip, and onstage from their Lollapalooza set, the latter of which came before her announcement in February to step away from Katseye.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026
Definition of see
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  • That was the case for the family of Lê Thị Xuân and Yoshiharu Shimizu (whose Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Văn Đức), who had two sons and one daughter, pictured above.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • The England international was instead pictured on a training bike at Manchester City, with his loan move having expired at the start of the month.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of picture

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