fantasize
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If you fantasize about retiring abroad, stories of blissful expats will only stoke your desire.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Exploring these accounts, I found that many lead back to Choudhury, keen to speculate and fantasize about which species might be in “The End of Oak Street.”
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
“If I did nothing but eat and lift for six months,” a football fan might fantasize, “I could be a walk-on at the next Jets training camp.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
The empathic distance that reality TV affords still allows us to not only delight in the Traitors’ impressive murder run but perhaps fantasize as to how well we’d perform in their place.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026
It is common enough at such times to fantasize arriving in a remote and high place.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Walter Mitty is a term sometimes used to describe a person who fantasizes about a life more interesting and exciting than their own.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Latta fantasizes about one day being in hospitality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
The book takes place in the fictional hamlet of Swampshire, where Beatrice Steele lives with her family, fantasizes about solving crimes, and worries about what happens to women who step outside their societal spheres.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
On the last day of work for Bringley, who a decade later is still a young man, Joseph fantasizes about his own future in their shared language of art.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Enrique fantasizes about Lourdes’s expected homecoming in December.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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At least that’s what one improbable image fantasized in a recent slew of AI-generated “wedding photos” circulating online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Ever since, Bamberger had fantasized about doing the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
On Weibo, accounts linked to Xu have written that “Having more children can solve all problems” and fantasized about Xu’s children marrying Elon Musk’s children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
I fantasized about eating an array of bubble plate-friendly foods: crudités, scoops of vanilla ice cream drizzled in olive oil and elaborate yogurt bowls topped with fancy granola, cut-up fruit and cacao nibs.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
That night, I fantasized about Papa joining us for the holiday.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
I didn’t want it to be this person who’s a complete introvert, nerd, not of this world, fantasizing about being this superhero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
I haven’t had that sandwich in more than a decade, but just writing about it now, I’m absolutely fantasizing.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025
But this wasn’t merely a spectacle of a man engaged in otherworldly fantasizing.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025
For once Hazel was fantasizing about the real world.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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