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But the Grand Dame of the mystery novel wouldn’t have dreamt up such a lurid and disturbing crime.—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025 The furniture and decor brand, dreamed up by founder Louise Roe, celebrates the gardens and cherished heirlooms of the English countryside with handmade wicker, antique homewares, chintz, and ditsy floral fabrics.—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025 Silicon Valley dreamt up poor derivations of past cautionary tales and created a monoculture of exploitative social media feeds and predatory data-hungry apps that birthed Orwell’s surveillance state.—John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025 That’s how Reeves described the sensation of reading the screenplay for The Matrix, which had been dreamed up by two up-and-coming filmmakers, Lana and Lilly Wachowski.—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dream up
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