visualizing

verb

present participle of visualize
as in imagining
to form a mental picture of visualized herself executing a perfect dive

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Recent Examples of visualizing The feature launched globally on the web version of Google Earth earlier this week, and Google’s blog post pitched it as a tool for visualizing historical sites and real estate projects. — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 31 July 2026 Other use cases for Google Earth’s image generation include visualizing future or imaginary projects. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026 This app is great for visualizing all aspects of your financial life, though its day-to-day budgeting tools are more limited. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 30 July 2026 Just as Melanie was visualizing the finish line for her cancer treatment, the family was dealt another blow in June 2023 when Shatner was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant melanoma that had spread to his lungs and brain. — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026 This graphic posted by a fan on social media does a great job visualizing the wide variety and size of the dragons. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 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 Although all of the data used to create the Explorer is publicly available, the process of synthesizing and visualizing it required technical expertise. — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026 By visualizing that dark interior, images of fetuses in the womb, getting ready to be born, assumed a critical place in these debates. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visualizing
  1. imagining
  2. envisioning
  3. seeing
  4. picturing
  5. dreaming
Verb
  • Many people spend years imagining exactly what retirement will look like.
    — Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The film begins with the religious question of whether young Ilyas is allowed to shave the bristles on his upper lip, leading to a consistent self-consciousness, which appears (and re-appears) as Ilyas imagining extreme close-ups of hair and skin.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of imagining
Verb
  • The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
Definition of envisioning
Verb
  • What to read next To have any realistic chance of seeing the northern lights during the eclipse, Earth would need to be in the grip of a severe geomagnetic storm.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • People who live in Palo Alto are probably used to seeing a driverless car quietly humming around on the street, but in middle America, many have never seen this kind of thing in practice.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of seeing
Verb
  • Rose is now in southeast Asia, but after picturing what customs would say, Mystic stayed back with her mother-in-law.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Where to Eat and Drink The Salt Lick BBQ is likely what many out-of-state visitors imagine when picturing Central Texas-style barbecue—and its backstory is just as flavorful as its brisket.
    — Kat Stinson, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026
Definition of picturing
Verb
  • A lot of times, the job involves dreaming about the next possibility while also sometimes being met with the possibility that your best days are behind you.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 31 July 2026
  • That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of dreaming

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