project onto

phrasal verb

projected onto; projecting onto; projects onto

: to believe or imagine that (one's ideas, feelings, etc.) are shared by (another person)

She projected her fears onto him.

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Many of those feelings wound up being projected onto Thompson. —

Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024 The opportunity for the land now boundless, those patches of dust become ripe with potential for what any imagination projects onto them. —

Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024 Laser lights shot across the arena at all angles while graphics projected onto the stage, the jumbotron and the floating cube. —

Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2024 In one project from 1998, a team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill envisioned communicating with colleagues through virtual, life-sized, 3D doppelgangers that could be projected onto any office surface. —

Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for project onto