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Sam Sacks writes that in this outing the author takes some of his characters out of the academic world and “replaces roseate campus fantasy with spikier societal conflicts.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Eisenkot has dismissed regime change as a fantasy and has said he’d prefer to sway Tehran’s behavior—away from supporting terrorist groups and developing nuclear weapons—through economic pressure.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

"I've always been a fantasy reader and it's just escapism really," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

There’s an understandable temptation to let the fantasy buoy the film.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

On its surface, the booming market in side bets on subprime mortgage bonds seemed to be the financial equivalent of fantasy football: a benign, if silly, facsimile of investing.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The Roadster might not make drivers’ Back to the Future fantasies of soaring over traffic come true.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But just as often, these turn out to be children’s fantasies — wide-eyed dreams of imaginary futures, tempered by real life.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Like any good advertising, it worked best when soothing our anxieties and tapping into our fantasies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then, it was described as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia - excessive fantasies and hallucinations.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The sound of fish leaping from the water interrupted my fantasies.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

So many prisoners were in the camps that it was widely fantasied among them that no free men were left outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

At first, real and fantasied crises led the "brothers and sisters" to make frantic telephone calls to the hospital therapists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.

From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

But as I travell'd hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams.

From King John by William Shakespeare

Even now there is fantasying here and there about seizing the Libyan oilfields or parachuting forces into Saudi Arabia, but no one really believes it could happen.

From Time Magazine Archive

I love the romanticism of Williamsburg, but perhaps we can revive the rugged American Dream without fantasying it into a never-never land impossible of realization.

From Time Magazine Archive

In passion—even in mere fire of the brain—one grasps not so much at the pen as at the string; and in that state alone does musical fantasying succeed better than poetic.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Not much more to him than speaking with a will; than fantasying on the flute in an animated strain.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle