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as in graphical
consisting of or relating to pictures
after a desensitizing series of imaginal exposures to the feared object, the phobic person is then exposed to the actual object
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as in mythic
not real and existing only in the imagination
the equator is merely an imaginal line
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Recent Examples of imaginal
With one technique, for example—called imaginal exposure—you might be asked to visualize the process of going to the airport, boarding the plane, and experiencing a bad bout of turbulence.
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Angela Haupt, TIME, 10 May 2024
Mercury entering into Pisces turns up the imaginal juice.
—USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
Then, from bundles of cells known as imaginal disks, a new body takes form.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
Angela Haupt, TIME, 10 May 2024
Mercury entering into Pisces turns up the imaginal juice.
—USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
Then, from bundles of cells known as imaginal disks, a new body takes form.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imaginal
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Wally Hall,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Going into the weekend, Hard Rock Bet released a graphic showing that most of Tampa Bay favored the Kansas City Chiefs — who lost to the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday, 40-22.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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That’s when Cora fired up some kind of imaginary jukebox inside his head and proceeded to dance the day away.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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Gradually, an imaginary narrative for the property took shape.—
Blaine Davis,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Artists Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter used dance and visual art to create a multimedia work to do just that.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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That alone provides for some potentially interesting visual ideas.—
Jason Jones,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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One day, all of these mascots will seem as laughable — and as bigoted — as my mythical rabbi for the Brooklyn Jews.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Related Articles The buzzy Calvin Klein and The Row alum wasn’t the only one to explore folklore and mythical creatures this season.—
Ari Stark,
WWD,
4 Feb. 2025
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Conservatively estimated at 75,000 images but likely somewhere closer to 80,000, Harris’s prodigious output—pictures taken for the paper supplemented by his private studio work and general photographic curiosity—beautifully and poetically paints a picture of Black life in mid-20th-century America.—
Robert Alan Grand,
ARTnews.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The British composer Cyril Scott sent a condolence card with a brooding photographic portrait attached.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Created by Chris Romano and Eric Falconer, who also are believed to be back for the sequel, Blue Mountain State is about a fictitious university, Blue Mountain State, and its football team, the Mountain Goats.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2025
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Last month, its editor revealed that A.I. had been used to tweak the Hungarian accents of its stars, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, and to create fictitious architectural plans and buildings for the closing retrospective of the main character’s career.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2025
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Rather, entropy reflects the diversity of the pictorial information.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Aug. 2021
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The horrific, lethal, split-second impact comes in frame 313, seven rows up from the bottom and 16 frames to the right, where a burst of vertical light interrupts the horizontal flow of the terrible pictorial narrative.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
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Ferrell is on the cowbell, and fictional music producer Bruce Dickinson’s (Christopher Walken) gotta have more cowbell, baby.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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But the film was fictional, largely focusing on the perspective of U.S. soldiers.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Imaginal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imaginal. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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