fantasy
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“The collision between fantasy and reality — the land of dreams and Tinseltown and all that. But then there’s also that seedier side. It’s just totally unique in that way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
People are flying across the country to see filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s epic fantasy blockbuster “The Odyssey,” the first full-length movie shot only with Imax cameras.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Or do we just revert to whining about our dopey NFL fantasy teams?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Three bogeys in a row - on the ninth, 10th and 11th - ensured a poignant home Open victory would remain a fantasy.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
On its surface, the booming market in side bets on subprime mortgage bonds seemed to be the financial equivalent of fantasy football: a benign, if silly, facsimile of investing.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
As La Cruz continues to break down barriers for the LGBTQ+ community in reggaeton, the rising Venezuelan star enjoys living out his gay fantasies in his music videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“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
You and your AI buddy would share inside jokes, light teasing, “remember when” stories of things you did in the past and fantasies or plans for the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC described the fantasies as "seething with hatred".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
There were adventure stories and mysteries and love stories and fantasies.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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
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
Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.
From For the Major A Novelette by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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
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
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
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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