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ROBERTS: You and I both lived in Canada, developed a love for Canadian hockey, and you found by looking at Canadian hockey teams that there's a certain commonality between all of the best players, at least in the junior hockey league system, which I imagine translates to the pros as well.

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  1. transitive verb To form a mental picture or image of.
  2. transitive verb To think; conjecture: I imagine you're right.
  3. transitive verb To have a notion of or about without adequate foundation; fancy: She imagines herself to be a true artist.
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  • As a sumi painting suggests flight or motion with the barest strokes, somehow the bull was challenging and frightened, bursting with animal power and aching vulnerability. —  The Legacy of Heorot
  • ROBERTS: You and I both lived in Canada, developed a love for Canadian hockey, and you found by looking at Canadian hockey teams that there's a certain commonality between all of the best players, at least in the junior hockey league system, which I imagine translates to the pros as well. —  CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2008
  • I noticed a sign advertising some kind of jalapeno burger with the words "sezur na ostro" which I can only imagine is Polish for blow your bowels up. —  TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • "I'm going to the bathroom," she whispered. —  The Witness
  • But just imagine -- imagine -- that I cared. —  A Rock in the Baltic
 

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  1. Middle English imaginen, from Old French imaginer, from Latin imāginārī, from imāgō, imāgin-, image; see aim- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English imaginen, imagenen, from Old French ymaginer, imaginer, French imaginer = Provencal imaginar, ymaginar, emaginar = Spanish Portuguese imaginar = Italian immaginare, from Latin imaginari, picture to oneself, fancy, imagine, from imago (imagin-), a copy, likeness, image: see image.
 

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