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dreamer

[dree-mer] / ˈdri mər /


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One is a dreamer and the other a realist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

"Ever since I was young, I've always been such a dreamer, so being able to live out my dreams and experience things like this only makes me more ambitious."

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

With “Disclosure Day,” it’s clear that this unprecedented, Earth-shattering event brought oft-pondered questions about empathy and humanism back to the forefront for cinema’s great dreamer.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

That night the Mexican actor was nominated for his performance as immigrant dreamer Manny Torres in “Babylon,” a 1920s-set dramedy about Hollywood mythmaking and excess.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Some of the homeowners that list are also “dreamers, and we have a lot of dreamers right now,” he added, because they insist on selling at the price their neighbors sold at three years ago.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Boston has been overtaken by Ball Boys, full-time dreamers and relentless ambassadors for their country.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

“RUM exists to build the future where that ingenuity wins, and to make sure it belongs to the dreamers and the doers,” said CEO Chris Pavlovski.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

That’s when I fell in love with those goatee and mullet-sporting risk-takers, the dreamers and pioneers whose fortunes seemed directly tied to the growth of the game.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

“Well, dreamers? Do you mean to stand all day and gawk at one another? Get on with your solder making.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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