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[ih-murs] / ɪˈmɜrs /




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“AI can give me a way to both more fully develop, and more fully immerse myself in, IP I have developed,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Miyazaki’s tales also tend to immerse us in supernatural domains existing parallel to our own, as if reality masks more ethereal, life-affirming realms.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

“I like to immerse myself and have a real experience and hopefully make it funny so it’s like a spoonful of sugar for the audience as they learn something.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

They now plan to turn the property into a holiday let, where fellow fans can literally immerse themselves in the show.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

We immerse the potatoes in pots of boiling water, then set out cilantro, green onions, and spices, plus yogurt and mint bunches for the chutney.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

"It immerses you in that fantasy," Alia says, describing it as a form of escapism.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her 2011 novel “Salvage the Bones,” set in Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina, immerses the reader in a world full of suffering but telegraphs something profound about human dignity and care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

“Miss Austen” is the first of three novels by Hornby that immerses readers in the lives of Jane and her close-knit family, which the author found “completely captivating.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

Instead, she immerses herself in getting August’s costume ready, since we all know Halloween is his favorite time of year.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

They placed the lenses over rabbit eyeballs immersed in a saline solution intended to mimic natural tears.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

She then immersed herself in the Social Democratic party, whose youth league she joined when she was 16.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

In Chicago, ACT UP’s Gregg Bordowitz became her mentor and professor, and for three years, Rosales immersed herself in learning, becoming obsessed with Gertrude Stein and philosophers like Gilles Deleuze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

This is about recharging and being immersed in my culture.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The air was not very cold; the mountains were lost in varying shades of gray mist; the sky was overcast, quiet—everything was immersed in lull.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Flores describes “Ritchie Forever” as a “multimedia experience, going back in time with sound and immersing in the history.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Under Dhanraj Master, he studied Western music, mastering the guitar and piano while immersing himself in Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

"We can levitate objects against gravity by immersing them in a sound field called a standing wave."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

He succeeds in showing their interior world, immersing us in the tensions and pleasures, griefs and passions of their days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

By imitating del Verrocchio, by immersing himself in the busy life of the workshop, Leonardo learns how to paint—and then reinvents how to paint.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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