Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective existing in the mind only; not real or actual.
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- adjective
Conceived orenvisioned in themind . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imagin . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imagine .
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Examples
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This establishment of the party-state, or "uncivil society" (by contrast with what he identifies as the imagined or idealized "civil society" celebrated by dissident and Western intellectuals at the time), "brought down its own system."
1989! Ash, Timothy Garton 2009
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Sometimes the imagined is as telling as the fact-based.
On Sight 2007
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Although the police team are not exactly how I had imagined from the books, the actor playing Erlunder was convincing in the role, really inhabiting the morose detective's skin and with the requisite intense focus.
Watching the film Jar City Maxine 2009
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It looks just like my brain imagined it when I read the story the first time.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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Although the police team are not exactly how I had imagined from the books, the actor playing Erlunder was convincing in the role, really inhabiting the morose detective's skin and with the requisite intense focus.
February 2009 Maxine 2009
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Although the police team are not exactly how I had imagined from the books, the actor playing Erlunder was convincing in the role, really inhabiting the morose detective's skin and with the requisite intense focus.
Film Maxine 2009
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Nothing like how I imagined from the comics, or the animated series, or how it was hinted at in the previous films.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine [Ryan's Review] « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Basically I am looking for songs set in imagined worlds.
Readers recommend: fantasy songs Paul MacInnes 2010
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If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined "progress."
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Although the police team are not exactly how I had imagined from the books, the actor playing Erlunder was convincing in the role, really inhabiting the morose detective's skin and with the requisite intense focus.
Watching the film Jar City Maxine 2009
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