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Recent Examples of visualizing
When Gu drops into the halfpipe, listening to American rap, her brain is still working at 100mph, sometimes visualizing a takeoff one second before performing her trick.
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Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 23 Feb. 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, 8 Feb. 2026
With new technologies that go beyond simply visualizing the brain to analyze how different brain regions are connected, neuroscientists can now examine specific brain regions involved in decision-making and how brain damage may predispose a person to criminal conduct.
—Christopher M. Filley, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
One way of visualizing this model is to imagine an expansive puddle with two opposing currents.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Consciously choosing the design of this polish, applying it calmly, and visualizing your wishes for the new year transforms the manicure into an act of self-care and manifestation.
—Andrea Carbajal, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
The process of visualizing stories can be described as a form of curation, where the artist cares to encode literal text with figurative language.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager — led by the Royal Observatory of Belgium — plays a key role in visualizing the solar atmosphere at high resolution and capturing phenomena like the prominence seen in this latest release.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
By freezing and visualizing what happens in the developer, the team turned a long-unsolved, guesswork-heavy process into one that can be seen, understood, and controlled.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 23 Feb. 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, 8 Feb. 2026
With new technologies that go beyond simply visualizing the brain to analyze how different brain regions are connected, neuroscientists can now examine specific brain regions involved in decision-making and how brain damage may predispose a person to criminal conduct.
—Christopher M. Filley, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
One way of visualizing this model is to imagine an expansive puddle with two opposing currents.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Consciously choosing the design of this polish, applying it calmly, and visualizing your wishes for the new year transforms the manicure into an act of self-care and manifestation.
—Andrea Carbajal, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2026
The process of visualizing stories can be described as a form of curation, where the artist cares to encode literal text with figurative language.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager — led by the Royal Observatory of Belgium — plays a key role in visualizing the solar atmosphere at high resolution and capturing phenomena like the prominence seen in this latest release.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
By freezing and visualizing what happens in the developer, the team turned a long-unsolved, guesswork-heavy process into one that can be seen, understood, and controlled.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visualizing
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But investors are so skittish that a recent viral blog post imagining a bleak AI future was enough to spark a selloff.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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So, there’s a way in which land offers, figuratively and literally, fertile space for imagining a way of life, a way of being, that can be sustainable, that can be flourishing.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Trump wanted to change the colors to red, white and blue, envisioning a patriotic theme.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Land’s writings from the nineties have a seductive danger, envisioning a sci-fi future of synthetic drugs, black-market brain implants, gene editing, and cyborgs.—
James Duesterberg,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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Neighbors confirmed seeing local police and FBI agents at the home in the suburban community of Southwest Ranches.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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Relative humidity will remain in the 30% to 40% range on Wednesday and Thursday, with Friday seeing a return to normal dry season humidity of around 60%.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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The trio created fake Minnesota temporary drivers’ licenses using false names, with each license picturing one of the Thomases, federal prosecutors said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Instead of picturing that exercise as long and gruesome, try breaking it up.—
Avery Newmark,
AJC.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Dreaming of solutions In this new study, to explore whether explicitly dreaming about a problem can help people find solutions to it, Paller, Konkoly, and their colleagues had 20 subjects work on a set of logic puzzles.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
26 Feb. 2026
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Looking back over his career trajectory, the festival recounted how Park first started dreaming of becoming a film director after discovering Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2026
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