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dreamer

[dree-mer] / ˈdri mər /


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In each of those projects, Johnson created a role for himself, typically a clownish dreamer.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

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

My grandfather may have been an imposing and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

He said the multiple award-winning artist had "opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life."

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

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

On Thursday in Boston they meet again, but this time Morocco aren't returning as football's dreamers.

From BBC Jul. 9, 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

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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