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.

Examples of project onto in a Sentence

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In their heads, visitors could try to multiply this meager urban plot times more than 30,000, projecting onto the stucco-to-stucco landscape all of the acres of citrus trees that once spread their branches across Orange County. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024

The sight of the side of Earth’s shadow being projected onto the lunar surface is among the oddest in astronomy. —Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

Anger sat near the audience in a movie theatre, with a laptop whose screen was projected onto the theatre’s big screen. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024

Pic ends in 2023 with Poirot snapping his 1973 photos of La Moneda, projected onto the palace’s facade. —John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024