popular imagination
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopularandimagination
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popular
adjective
uk/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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imagination
noun
uk/ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the ability to form pictures in ...
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(Definition ofpopularandimaginationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpopular imagination
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She is a stunning image in thepopularimagination.
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This is not an attitude reserved topopularimagination, however.
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In thepopularimaginationthe refugees were assigned to this category.
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Some enthusiasm - a minor war in some distant country, for example - might seize thepopularimagination.
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In thepopularimagination, covert action is too often thought of in conspiratorial terms.
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Nor have we developed satisfying explanations for just why these mythologies have such a powerful hold on thepopularimagination.
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Appearing to promise both amazing new control over nature and terrifying dehumanization, cloning has gripped thepopularimagination.
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We must impress thepopularimagination.
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Climate change grabbed the headlines andpopularimagination.
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This relationship is not primarily a product of individual experience, effort, and luck despite the rags-to-riches myths that pervade thepopularimagination.
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Over the ensuing decades, representations of memory as being akin to film flourished within certain psychotherapeutic and forensic fields, and also in thepopularimagination.
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In thepopularimaginationboth are vested with power greater - and are therefore seen as being more effective - than any other group, sector or individual in society.
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A convention can function in the service of variable social agendas, only because it has, in thepopularimagination, turned its back upon its moment of origin.
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It had not the driving force behind it, nor had it anypopularimaginationbehind it.
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If cycling increases its hold on thepopularimagination, it will bring other considerable benefits.
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His youth, vigor and intelligence caught thepopularimagination.
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The legend nonetheless persisted in thepopularimagination.
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Perhaps the aspect of their work which most caughtpopularimaginationwas their association with the mixed antiaircraft batteries.
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They compensate for their institutional weaknesses through a closer relationship with deprived segments of the population, volunteer work, and discourses that strike thepopularimaginationin a time of hardship.
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Nevertheless, for all the often outrageous claims and understandable cynicism, at least in the period between autumn 1926 and late summer 1927, community singing did capture thepopularimagination.
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They are more than just symbols, they represent ideals and, in thepopularimagination, they are linked to whatever they represent.
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Now research has already a rather technical and narrow meaning, confined in thepopularimaginationto purely scientific inquiries into scientific and closely allied subjects.
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These companies are certainly very far removed from the glittering vision of the show business world which is common inpopularimagination.
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It may be said that thepopularimaginationhad not then become fired with the necessity for providing ground defence against air raids.
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To believe otherwise is merely to give substance to that other myth, the big bad ogre ofpopularimagination, the farmer.
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