wish fulfillment
Example Sentences
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I wouldn’t say anyone’s asking for this, but we want to do some little wish fulfillment, or just live in a world where you can pretend that this is happening.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
As Joanne Kaufman writes, “What would summer on the beach be without chocolate and marshmallows between graham crackers—or without angst and wish fulfillment between book covers?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“And if you can’t have the wish fulfillment in movies, where are you going to get it?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
“As much as this isn’t wish fulfillment in the classic sense of a glamorous Manhattan apartment, cosmopolitans every night — it’s wish fulfillment because they’re really happy there,” Shaw said of the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Jules Verne must have employed a similar type of wish fulfillment with his prophetic writings that splashed a hundred years into the present.
From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown
