Imagine and Need

Imagine

Imagine verb - To form a mental picture of.

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Need and imagine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a verb "Imagine".

Need verb - To have as a requirement.

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Imagine and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Imagine" instead a verb "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

character	imagine character	need character
power	imagine power	need power
man	imagine man	need man
people	imagine people	need people
Other words: kind, reason, someone, amount, time, way, bit, whatever, eyes.

I Minored in Tropology: Flynn has studied just about everything you can imagine and everything he could possibly need to know (plus a good deal that he presumably doesn't need).

Source: Film / The Librarian
In The Imager Portfolio, the titular mages just need to imagine something and it happens.

Source: Thought-Controlled Power
This wouldn't be necessarily bad — but imagine you need to switch to another weapon quickly in the middle of a fight with a local looter.

Source: Video Game / Pathologic

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