as in dream
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
hoped that one day world peace would be a reality and not just a daydream
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Recent Examples of daydream
Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Others would be daydreaming or watching a train pass by.
—Pol Ballús, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
As the narrative unfolds, her mundane tasks take a playful turn, with suggestive dance moves punctuating her daydreams, until Wheeler suddenly appears unannounced, leaving both characters caught in a moment of shy intrigue.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 13 May 2025
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Noun
And so Tony telling me all of her backstory, then gave me time to daydream on all of these things and create what now feel like very real memories.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Others would be daydreaming or watching a train pass by.
—Pol Ballús, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Verb
And so, what was once a lazy, crazy, charming afternoon daydream of a movie is now a frantic, insistent, often unfunny sci-fi comedy.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
As the narrative unfolds, her mundane tasks take a playful turn, with suggestive dance moves punctuating her daydreams, until Wheeler suddenly appears unannounced, leaving both characters caught in a moment of shy intrigue.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydream
Noun
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There are still a handful of dream sequences and surreal interludes that seem to want to underscore the show’s deep psychological curiosity, and its unwillingness to be an easy watch.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2025
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Ps ur avocado toast is on the long list of reasons why ur my dream wife.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
Verb
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Everyone fantasizes about this profession and this industry being so deeply creative and born of impulse and character.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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Lopez plays Ingrid Luna, aka Aurora, aka the Spider Woman, a movie star about whom a gay Argentinian prisoner fantasizes.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The Old Guard 2 — a sequel to the Charlize Theron fantasy superhero hit from 2020 — arrives on Netflix this week.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Set in a fantasy version of early 1900s Japan, the series focuses on the adventures Tanjiro Kamado, an ordinary boy whose peaceful life in the mountains is disrupted when demons murder his family.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
28 June 2025
Verb
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Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer – who knows a thing or two about placing a smash song into a film – and directed by Kosinski, F1 was always envisioned as a global spectacle.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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For some students, in place of bachelor’s and master’s programs, Reece envisions a kind of AI vocational school that teaches students how to apply AI to their specific career interests.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
27 June 2025
Noun
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And if anyone was naive enough to imagine the U.S.-led tournament in 2026 would be free of such political baggage, then surely the increasingly public proximity of the Trump-Infantino relationship has dispelled those illusions.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The entire spectacle is, of course, a line-of-sight illusion — all three objects extremely far from each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Verb
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Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.—
Andrew Mawson,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2024
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In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2020
Verb
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Consumers will soon be freed from their dependency on a smartphone and instead will be able to seamlessly interact with an array of secondary compute devices and displays throughout the environment to visualize data and transact.—
Mark Francis,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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That ability to visualize complex concepts instantly helps everyone stay aligned and efficient.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
18 June 2025
Verb
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In a visual narrative medium (a play, a film, a TV show) everything a character thinks, feels, believes, remembers, imagines, the audience must infer from what the actor is doing with body and face and voice.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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But why should God be imagined as human—heavens, dogs are nobler creatures, to say nothing of whales or oak trees—and why as a man?—
Campbell McGrath,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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“Daydream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydream. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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