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dream

[dreem] / drim /




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"I'm so blessed and privileged to be in the position to represent my country. It's a dream I'm living right now."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

You are a survivor and, given the kind of upheaval you have endured, you are living a different kind of American dream.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Like a dream come true,” said skateboarder Kyle Martin, 37, between ramp jumps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

And, again, like Mona, accepting that dream as a potential reality can shift your self-perception entirely.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

He thought of his sister in his dream.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The first few songs sketch out the record’s themes, in which individual dreams are cheapened in a world that rewards artificiality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

So instead of letting my expensive tastes bankrupt my family, I’m planning the wedding of my dreams on a budget.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 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

It reveals how the country’s 20th century manufacturing prowess expanded into the production of dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was agonizing to think of Togbe’s hopes for me, his rosy dreams for my future.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Who wants to listen to this Beatles pastiche, dreamed up to get Tom Hanks’ film studio off the ground?

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

That is what the Kennedy Center was named for: a president who dreamed of a country unafraid of beauty, unafraid of grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Now 18, Charlotte is a contestant in the latest series of Big Brother, something she has dreamed about for most of her life.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Mr. Warrack describes removing an approximately 3-foot-deep layer of pigeon excrement from Rome’s Church of SS Vincenzo e Anastasio, “which revealed a multitude of squirming horrors that even Hieronymus Bosch never dreamed of.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Stage One was to apply a formula that had been dreamed up to cope with corporate credit risk to consumer credit risk.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I’ve spent my entire twenties sitting across from the most incredible people, people I’d always dreamt of meeting,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Money itself is just a construct, one with rules dreamt up by humans.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

He had dreamt of finishing high school, graduating from college and getting a job to support his parents - but the Tigray war put paid to that.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Maybe she dreamt that you were gone and that she was sleeping with her husband, who was her only comfort,” Ma said to Papa.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The idea of runaway doom is one of those fun and frightening pictures that survive only in the moment between dreaming and waking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Patriotism as enacted by the creative community takes the American experiment seriously enough to question, examine, remember what we’ve forgotten and catalyze collective American dreaming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

You would forgive some in the Shed for dreaming big.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Whatever the mechanism, the findings suggest that the dreaming brain may be operating under unusually high energy demands even while its fuel supply increases.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

For a moment, Roz was dreaming again about how easily she could get home with an airship.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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