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[dreem] / drim /




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Just a decade ago, it was nothing more than the dream of scientists in the lab.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Anything less would be a fallacy, a dream of a world that we don’t, and might never, live in.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Access to the internet has widened their perspective, and many told Poole González that they dream of joining the exodus of more than 1 million Cubans who have left the island in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Becoming an aviator was never Machchhar’s childhood dream, he told the Indian podcast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The strangeness crept into my dream that night.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

You don’t have to go into a lot of detail here about your hopes and dreams for the future, such as traveling or spending time with your grandchildren.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

"After the Wigan game I just went into the changing rooms and said to him 'you know you get to play your final game at Old Trafford'. It's what dreams are made of," Powell added.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I arrived like so many others: a suitcase full of dreams and fears," he wrote in June 2025 in one of his columns for the newspaper La Presse.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

It all reduces to the promise of small daily actions that, over time, build into the conquest of your wildest dreams.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

According to Theo, I called it out in my dreams.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

She first dreamed of becoming a wrestler at the age of 11, but pursuing it as a career from Northern Ireland seemed a very distant prospect.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“We never dreamed anything like this would ever happen to us, turning people from trusting to everybody wanting to get alarm systems and security lights.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Surely it isn’t the kind of re-entry Williams dreamed up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

How could we have guessed as we sat there—two middle-aged spinsters and an old man— that in place of memories were about to be given adventures such as we had never dreamed of?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

It is not, one suspects, the sort of name dreamt up by someone planning a future career in Welsh politics.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Tilbrook: Paul sang it in a way that I could never have dreamt of singing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

It was the first time I had dreamt of my family since I started running away from the war.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

During this stage, the apparent energy supply to the dreaming brain increases, yet levels of the energy molecule neurons directly use actually decline.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Readers found William so delightful—so infuriating, so crafty, so entertaining—that Crompton kept dreaming up escapades for him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Now, like many Iranian students dreaming of a future elsewhere, she is scrambling to find another way to take it, while absorbing the new exam fee and hefty travel costs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

But with seven points from a possible nine, three clean sheets and only two points behind early pacesetters Manchester City, the Hull supporters can be forgiven for dreaming a little.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

It often seemed she was dreaming the real world around her, the things that were actually happening.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig




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