as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury
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Recent Examples of fantasize
According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers.
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Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Putin should not be welcome anywhere in the U.S. and certainly not in Alaska, which Russian media fantasizes even now about reclaiming.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
Faris: The American far right fears and loathes cities, and President Trump has long publicly fantasized about unleashing the military on them.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
How about all the other state troopers who are on record fantasizing about their victims killing themselves?
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
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Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Putin should not be welcome anywhere in the U.S. and certainly not in Alaska, which Russian media fantasizes even now about reclaiming.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
Faris: The American far right fears and loathes cities, and President Trump has long publicly fantasized about unleashing the military on them.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
How about all the other state troopers who are on record fantasizing about their victims killing themselves?
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasize
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Compounding the cacophony is a Jonny Greenwood score that veers between manic percolation—imagine a xylophone humping a coffeepot—and grandly operatic surges of synth.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Drivers like Doell aren’t imagining the transformation.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Sep. 2025
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Anderson envisioned the scene where Penn’s Lockjaw does his paternity test with Willa as taking place in a chapel, so La Purisima’s sanctuary provided the perfect backdrop for his perverse quest.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
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Lazarus envisions Versant as a bridge between the past and future of media, a company that will use the large but declining cash generated by cable subscriptions to fund acquisition and investment in building the next generation of news and sports media.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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East Ridge High School’s football stadium was a riot of color and noise early Friday evening, a near-capacity crowd excited to see the host Raptors meet Metro East Conference rival Mounds View.—
Tris Wykes,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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So Instacart is reviewing orders from last October to see what might be filling trick-or-treaters’ bags across the country this year.—
Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Steve Sax is the homegrown kid who dreamed big and achieved it.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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The rebels, led by Deepak Rauniyar and Binod Paudel, fired off a scathing letter to the Academy demanding a full investigation and threatening to blow up Nepal’s Oscar dreams entirely.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Fantasize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasize. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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