daydreamed

past tense of daydream

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamed
Verb
  • The president’s brother, nearly eight years his senior, didn’t want to go into the family real estate business, but dreamed of flying for Trans World Airlines.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • For, at the very least, the conveyor belt of elite NHL talent that grew up here and dreamed about being part of the Vancouver team that might finally deliver the Stanley Cup to the city with the public park similarly named for the 16th Earl of Derby.
    Thomas Drance, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid.
    Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • The brand's return has been fantasized for years and ecstatically anticipated ever since Marc Jacobs Beauty was credited for the makeup in Jacobs's spring 2026 New York Fashion Week show.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • Kirk often spoke about the Founders, arguing that the country had been envisioned by and for Protestants.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Assad, 28, already has envisioned his daughter growing up watching him pitch.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • This can be visualized as a kind of barcode, with some narrow stripes and some thicker continuous stripes following one another.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
  • From now on, what historians once formulated as hypotheses can be tested, visualized, and sometimes even reassessed through AI.
    Roberto Prieto, Variety, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Black Detroiters living in an economically depressed 1980s Detroit imagined a sonic future that was inclusive and equitable.
    Carla Vecchiola, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
  • Even in her wildest dreams, Jordyn Woods probably never imagined seeing her purse behind glass in a museum display case.
    Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Based on projections, Iran is still fancied to progress but if Algeria-Austria is a draw in Group J, a result that sends both through, DR Congo beats Uzbekistan and Croatia gets at least a point against Ghana, then the Iranians are out.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • The problem with Dolan, this person confided, was that the owner fancied himself knowledgeable about basketball.
    Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Global is confident that the show has already been renewed for a second season and Abrams said it was envisaged to return multiple times.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Talkin The Hardest played in the background was something nobody could have envisaged.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Beside religious reasons, Hilton said that raising his three children, conceived via surrogacy, in his hometown just felt right.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • The MiG-25 was conceived in the early 1960s as the Soviet Union sought a way to intercept high-speed, high-altitude threats such as the XB-70 Valkyrie bomber and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
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“Daydreamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamed. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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