Example Sentences

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Cepeda has pledged to introduce a new economic and social model, one that his orthodox Communist father might have envisioned.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

For Knox, freedom has meant accepting a mantle that her young, manic pixie self could never have envisioned.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025

Kamala Harris is making history yet again — this time in a manner few could have envisioned.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2024

If you look at the last few years and where we’ve been, people wouldn’t have envisioned this at all.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2024

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee