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fantasy

[fan-tuh-see, -zee] / ˈfæn tə si, -zi /


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“The hard part of a long-distance relationship is there is a component of fantasy that could creep in that clouds understanding of the relationship or what is going on,” Bobby says.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

A stunning fantasy creation: “Neptune Fantasy Barbie Doll.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

This inspires a funny magic bit set in a fantasy DMV office—much preferable to a real one, needless to say.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

She is also a model who married another model, Lucky Blue Smith, and regularly serves up a curated fantasy of ridiculous from-scratch culinary creations, all made for the love of Lucky and her four children.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Occasionally, he’d split his mental gymnastics, leaving his imaginary board to swing a fantasy baseball bat and knock an invisible ball into the left-field stands of the Ebbets Field in his mind.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

In it he argued that all Western literature and art about the Islamic world is tainted by imperial power and its projected fantasies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

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

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Lillian Karabaic shares some advice for dealing with these kinds of persistent fantasies.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Like “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Rockin’ in the Free World,” “Pink Houses” was practically destined to be misinterpreted by elected salesmen peddling easy fantasies.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

I was immersed in fantasies about my quiet, safe weekend.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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