as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
visualized herself executing a perfect dive
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Nevarez practices visualization before every game, standing by herself, bat in hand, visualizing how that day’s pitcher will pitch to her.
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Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
Ability to manipulate and visualize images, shapes, and 3D space.
—Big Think, 6 Apr. 2026
Basking in the moonlight and visualizing his success apparently worked, because Kelce has become one of the greatest players in NFL history.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
In a couple of fleetingly brilliant moments, the director visualizes characters' discombobulation with aggressive blurring and dizzying superimpositions.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
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Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
Ability to manipulate and visualize images, shapes, and 3D space.
—Big Think, 6 Apr. 2026
Basking in the moonlight and visualizing his success apparently worked, because Kelce has become one of the greatest players in NFL history.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2026
In a couple of fleetingly brilliant moments, the director visualizes characters' discombobulation with aggressive blurring and dizzying superimpositions.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for visualize
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But dismantling polluting industries, trying to clean up our air and our water, and imagining a health care system not driven by profit would take coordinated, radical restructuring.—
Hannah Kerman,
STAT,
29 Apr. 2026
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Just imagine Bill Belichick and Rob Gronkowski smashing vodka Red Bulls and partying it up.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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In an even more outlandish science-fiction-style plan, the authors write that The Line’s developers envisioned a future in which robots would become intelligent, rights-bearing citizens of the city.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
1 May 2026
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Walking through the frame of his soon-to-be new home on a recent morning, an excited Ozzy Herrera could envision the future.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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The fact is that recent or older series can gain new footholds with modern viewers who haven’t seen them.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2026
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Actor Sarah Jessica Parker was seen walking down the grand staircase at the New York Public Library with Queen Camilla after a literacy event this afternoon.—
Emma Caughlan,
NBC news,
30 Apr. 2026
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An earlier cut of the film did end in 1993 and addressed the allegations, but that ending had to be scrapped due to a clause in a legal settlement with an accuser that stipulated he could never be pictured or mentioned in a dramatization of Jackson’s life.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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In the 2003 documentary Living with Michael Jackson, Michael was pictured holding hands with Gavin Arvizo, who was 13 years old and recovering from cancer at the time.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Visualize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visualize. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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