Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamed
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Miranda, a now 49-year-old sales associate, had dreamed since childhood of having hazel or green eyes.—
Saima S. Iqbal,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2025 -
No one dreamed that chase would take nine years, but more teams around the country invested in catching up and the Huskies had several seasons thrown off course by injuries.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sure, Timothy stole a gun and fantasized about killing his wife and son, but the gun is gone.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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During the Cold War, its operatives fantasized about weakening and maybe even unraveling NATO and subverting the cohesiveness of the West.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
21 May 2019
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Of course injuries change things, but the make up of this team is definitely feeling quite a bit different than originally envisioned and thank goodness for David Sterns ability to build multiple layers of depth in the organization.—
Tim Britton,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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In the national park’s 1980 management plan, an east-west trail spanning the length of the park was envisioned.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Miranda collborates with Actias wearing bespoke gloves designed in his Plymouth lab that translate hand gestures into control parameters to constantly change sounds by manipulating qubits, visualized on screen as a sphere.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
4 Oct. 2024
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The characters are visualized by artist Yann Kebbi as raw, flickering drawings overlaid atop the documentary imagery to lead us around the city.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Oct. 2024
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Swanky suites and expensive lounges near the best viewing areas help woo clientele, who then help inflate revenue beyond what anyone could have imagined in earlier eras.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Hutchens imagined it for someone who wants to propose with a grand gesture but not a traditional ring.—
Martha Cheng Gisela Williams Melinda Fakuade Jinnie Lee,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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This was never going to be a quick fix, and while United have clearly rigged their mast in a new direction, early waters have been choppier than anyone envisaged.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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That envisaged shooting beams of light between thousands of balloons floating on the edge of space to provide phone and Internet services across remote areas.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Ars Technica,
17 Mar. 2025
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That was one problem with the flat rate system from the moment it was conceived, but the PUC pressed ahead anyway.—
Thomas Elias,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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While much of Halo's iconography comes from the UNSC, Halo vehicles and troops, and, more importantly, the Spartans (not just Master Chief), the Covenant might be one of the most unique hostile alien factions ever conceived for a sci-fi story.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
29 Dec. 2024
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“Daydreamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamed. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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