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reverie

[rev-uh-ree] / ˈrɛv ə ri /


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Watching the film is akin to trying to explain a night’s reverie to a friend, with specific details just out of reach and fading the faster you try to remember them.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate May 8, 2025

The dinner bell rings, jarring me out of my reverie.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Just as musical reveries reveal our secret selves, they also point to what we share with others.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

With club music producers Gordo, Major Lazer and Afrojack on deck, singles like “Nel” and “Secreto Victoria” put their sound in a whole new context — from poolside mezcal reveries to foggy, strobelit nightclubs.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2024

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2024

The Nobel laureate was a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2023

But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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