project onto
phrasal verb
projected onto; projecting onto; projects onto
: to believe or imagine that (one's ideas, feelings, etc.) are shared by (another person)
She projected her fears onto him.
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The digital creations were projected onto a giant LCD screen as part of a virtual runway during the fashion show.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 5 June 2025
This raises the possibility that some of these observations may reflect the owners' own grief being projected onto their pets.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
For the latter, that means being projected onto a screen in front of an audience, which is why Resurrection begins and ends with scenes inside of a movie theater, one coming to life and the other melting away.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
The vision that a planner and his state bureaucracy projected onto an agricultural area or a neighborhood was far more rigid and simplified than what already existed.
—Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 5 June 2025
This raises the possibility that some of these observations may reflect the owners' own grief being projected onto their pets.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
For the latter, that means being projected onto a screen in front of an audience, which is why Resurrection begins and ends with scenes inside of a movie theater, one coming to life and the other melting away.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
The vision that a planner and his state bureaucracy projected onto an agricultural area or a neighborhood was far more rigid and simplified than what already existed.
—Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for project onto
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“Project onto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/project%20onto. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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