imagined; imagining
i-ˈma-jə-niŋ 
-ˈmaj-nə-
Examples of imagine in a Sentence
a writer who has imagined an entire world of amazing creatures
He asked us to imagine a world without poverty or war.
It's hard for me to imagine having children.
He was imagining all sorts of terrible things happening.
“What was that sound? I think there's someone in the house!” “Oh, you're just imagining things.”
I imagine it will snow at some point today.
It's difficult to imagine that these changes will really be effective.
The company will do better next year, I imagine.
It was worse than they had imagined.
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The guitar bolts and sweeping synths beg you to imagine Carti as some kind of shadow boss, levitating in the sky like SpongeBob going Goofy Goober mode.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
The Future May Be Port-Free Just imagine: no USB-C connector at the base of the phone, with only charging through a charging pad as an option, and with data synced exclusively wirelessly.
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Instead imagine your brain as a machine-learning model.
—Dalton Conley, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
This scenario imagines a system that just blindly maps inputs to outputs in a mechanical way, based on a comprehensive set of rules or mappings.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
The Future May Be Port-Free Just imagine: no USB-C connector at the base of the phone, with only charging through a charging pad as an option, and with data synced exclusively wirelessly.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Instead imagine your brain as a machine-learning model.
—Dalton Conley, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
This scenario imagines a system that just blindly maps inputs to outputs in a mechanical way, based on a comprehensive set of rules or mappings.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Imagine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imagine. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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imagine
verb
imag·ine
im-ˈaj-ən
imagined; imagining
-ˈaj-(ə-)niŋ
1
: to form a mental picture of : use the imagination
2
: think sense 2, suppose
I imagine it will snow
Medical Definition
imagine
verb
imag·ine
im-ˈaj-ən
imagined; imagining
-ˈaj-(ə-)niŋ
: to form a mental image of (something not present)
: to use the imagination
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