fantasies
Example Sentences
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Some of the songs of youth gone by are not so much memory pieces as “what if” fantasies of Mr. Louris, now age 71, about meeting Stephanie years earlier than he actually did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Then, it was described as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia - excessive fantasies and hallucinations.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’m a late bloomer and worried I’m still missing out on living by being stuck in these idealized fantasies of what love could be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
