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  • noun Plural form of imagination.

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Examples

  • People flexing their imaginations is always pleasing to me.

    Here Comes The Son 2005

  • The bilingual adventurer, praised for encouraging kids to explore and use their imaginations, is a not only a TV sensation, but a global brand that attracts millions of kids through dolls, clothes, touring shows, DVDs and other merchandising and events.

    Dora the Streetwalker? | clusterflock 2009

  • The story, which is really improvised by their own imaginations from the chart (slipping from a theatrical metaphor to a jazz one) provided by the author, has become something they have also invested time and effort into creating, just as the writer did, and thus they feel it belongs to them, in a sense, as much as it does to its putative creator.

    What does a writer owe his readers? Edward Willett 2007

  • Divorce wasn't their idea; it seeped up into their imaginations from the depths of the cultural aquifer.

    Why No One is Married 2006

  • They already have inate vivid imaginations from the start and will produce their own wonderlands in addition to the ones that exist.

    Many Impossible Things | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • I believe we come by our emotional lives from our parents, just as we come by our imaginations from the natural world.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • I believe we come by our emotional lives from our parents, just as we come by our imaginations from the natural world.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • The make of them was from the artificer; they are creatures of men's vain imaginations and the works of men's hands, and therefore can have no divinity in them.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Reviewing Hitler’s Mein Kampf in 1969 Ballard remarks ‘[t] he psychopath never dates’ and speculates that: ‘perhaps one reason why the American and Russian space programs have failed to catch our imaginations is that this quality of explicit psychopathology is missing.’

    Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

  • Says Fredi, “When you are able to capture guests expectations and transfer in imaginations, you’re doing well”.

    Corsa Cucina – The Art and Heart of Mediterranean Cuisine 2006

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