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in a zone

ADVERB
on a roll
Synonyms
WEAK
cooking hot hot-handed in a groove on fire on one's game smoking
NOUN
daydream
Synonyms
STRONGEST
pipe dream reverie
STRONG
conceiving dream fancy fancying imagination imagining musing phantasm phantasy stargazing trip vision wish woolgathering
WEAK
castle in the air figment of imagination fond hope fool's paradise head trip mind trip pie in the sky
Antonyms
STRONG
actuality certainty dislike existence fact hate reality substance truth

Example Sentences

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“We are in a zone in which your average annualized returns are a little bit lower than they have been in the recent past, because the equity risk premium is low,” Martin Adams told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

He said the offensive instincts which allowed him find space in a zone or read a defensive players’ leverage translated to the other side of the ball.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

There are times when certain students get in a zone where they seem to be giving correct answers before hearing the questions.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2024

Over dinner during the Los Angeles Times’ visit to Cyprus, Andrés made an eerily prescient remark about coordinating with the Israelis and the extreme peril of aid deliveries in a zone of ferocious battle.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2024

A lot of astronomers believe it isn’t a planet at all, but merely the largest object so far found in a zone of galactic debris known as the Kuiper belt.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson