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fantasy

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


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Alternating with this story are chapters set in a separate universe of medieval fantasy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

Tomi Adeyemi, the author of the bestselling fantasy “Children of Blood and Bone,” isn’t planning to see the forthcoming film adaptation — even though she co-wrote it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Chanel's artistic director Matthieu Blazy leant into the world of whimsy and fantasy with his haute couture collection.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

I consider what it would be like if such a scenario happened, and I’m so caught up in the fantasy that I lose track of what he’s saying.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“Like, if they’re experiencing an urge and are worried their fantasies are turning into plans, who can they call immediately?”

From Slate Jun. 15, 2026

Beyond the hotel, he is already entertaining other ways to spend that fortune, including fantasies of helping the town where he lives switch from wood-burning to cleaner heating options.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC described the fantasies as "seething with hatred".

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

Such cautionary fantasies attach relationship failures to supernatural forces.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2026

At night, when Jagu was particularly restless, consumed by his fears and fantasies, she put him to bed like a child, with her hand on his forehead.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Of guilt, Laing seems to say�unnecessary, irrational guilt, perhaps resulting from fantasied childhood "wrongs" and from tortuous, circular reasoning about causes and effects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he fantasied a post-cease-fire briefing�as conducted by Washington's C.R.P.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Shakespeare, William

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

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

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 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

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 Carlyle, Thomas




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