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Thirty-five-year-old Getenesh Gabiso, who lives in Alamura, a farming village just outside Hawassa, a major city in southern Ethiopia, is one of those who is imagining the difference it could make.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025

Frequently, a child is imagining something worse than what is happening.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Now he is imagining making organisms that are reconfigurable and “immortal” in that “when they die, the individual cells crawl off and make their life alone and maybe rejoin again later into something else.”

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Forethought is imagining how our current actions will impact our future selves.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2023

There are only three mortals here—Taryn, me, and the redhead with Severin—and from the way she regards us, Orlagh is imagining mice presiding over a convocation of cats.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black