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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 His mind ran the perimeter of the room, visualizing the window, door, walls, and photos. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026 Children who learn visually may have a strong sense of spatial awareness and tend to be good at visualizing information or concepts. — Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 8 Sep. 2026 This view helpfully shows key numbers (such as resolved requests, involvement rate, resolution rate) at the top, along with a funnel that visualizes visualizing how requests are resolved (with AI or humans). — Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visualizing
  1. imagining
  2. envisioning
  3. seeing
  4. picturing
  5. dreaming
Verb
  • There are a lot of entry points to it and there's almost a theatrical tradition to it where people keep reinterpreting and re-imagining her story.
    — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Also in Toronto, Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder pulls a similar trick, re-imagining the late Patricia Highsmith as a scheming host played by Helen Mirren.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of imagining
Verb
  • The exterior might have many fans envisioning the famous taxi cab pulling up to the house, as depicted in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s opening credits.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The Olmsted Brothers completed plans for it in 1906, envisioning its broad landscaped median as an extension of Baltimore’s park system connecting major green spaces.
    — Lawrence Bell, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of envisioning
Verb
  • While Germany is again seeing moderate growth, the labor market deteriorated last year.
    — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Since no one reported seeing any suspicious individuals entering or leaving the Borden property that morning, police were led to believe the killer must have already been inside the home.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of seeing
Verb
  • Try distancing yourself and vividly picturing someone else's perspective.
    — Marisa G. Franco, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • After years spent teasing a legally impossible third term, Trump is now describing life after January 2029, picturing himself at home as a successor claims credit.
    — Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of picturing
Verb
  • Critical to healthy brain functioning is a dreaming state of unconsciousness called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep.
    — Mike McRae September 17, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That’s almost eight months of talking, worrying and dreaming about the Bears.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreaming

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“Visualizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visualizing. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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