fantasize

If you fantasize about retiring abroad, stories of blissful expats will only stoke your desire.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Toward the book’s end they fantasize about a world in which your local Waffle House serves “mycelium-based steak and Impossible burgers for the patty melts,” with red meat unavailable at most restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Exploring these accounts, I found that many lead back to Choudhury, keen to speculate and fantasize about which species might be in “The End of Oak Street.”

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

“If I did nothing but eat and lift for six months,” a football fan might fantasize, “I could be a walk-on at the next Jets training camp.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Here are some of the conclusions that I gleaned from conversations with McKinsey executives and from their reports: We Americans often fantasize that German and Japanese industries are super-efficient, exceeding American industries in productivity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Walter Mitty is a term sometimes used to describe a person who fantasizes about a life more interesting and exciting than their own.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

The book takes place in the fictional hamlet of Swampshire, where Beatrice Steele lives with her family, fantasizes about solving crimes, and worries about what happens to women who step outside their societal spheres.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

On the last day of work for Bringley, who a decade later is still a young man, Joseph fantasizes about his own future in their shared language of art.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

Jeanne, the prioress who fantasizes about Grandier, is rebuffed by him and later accuses him of consorting with the devil.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

She fantasizes that the next place she goes—because there’s always a next place, another foster home, a new school—she’ll start over with a new, easier-to-maintain look.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Duchamp’s seeming disinterest often revealed itself to be something far more venomous, as when he fantasized about a nihilistic readymade: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing board.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

At least that’s what one improbable image fantasized in a recent slew of AI-generated “wedding photos” circulating online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Ever since, Bamberger had fantasized about doing the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Director Guillermo del Toro fantasized about making a version of Mary Shelley’s classic for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

I kept aloof, I waited, I fantasized, misleading myself.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Sure, many other countries go to war with similar motives, fantasizing the conflicts are about freedom or religion or whatever.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

She was about 4½ when she started fantasizing about participating in the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

But this wasn’t merely a spectacle of a man engaged in otherworldly fantasizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

It was just his mind playing tricks, fantasizing that the liquid all around was actually water.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi