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Instead, they’re indicative of the challenges a good surgeon like Ting faces as he tries to tailor his course of treatment to what individuals have been picturing in their heads for most of their lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2020

You would have been picturing the details over and over again when the beggars were not talking about 'em, whereas I was able to put them out of my mind.

From The Path to Honour by Grier, Sydney C.

Now, you see, you don't look so old, or so big, or so imposing, as I have been picturing you to myself.'

From Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The dark spots I have been picturing arose entirely from the bad tempers, dispositions, and ill-conduct of those ruled.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by Thomas, William I.

We have been picturing atoms, and molecules, and vibrations, and waves, which eye has never seen nor ear heard, and which can only be discerned by the exercise of imagination.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John