Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamed
Verb
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Caudill once dreamed of playing college basketball.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025 -
The first National Conservatism conferences drew students and intellectuals who felt marginalized by the Republican Party and dreamed about taking power.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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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As a form of escapism, Molina fantasized of Aurora as an actress who, in the film, takes on the role of Spider Woman.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
28 Nov. 2024
Verb
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In that instant the happy future the couple had envisioned with their son evaporated.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Not the player many envisioned, but a profile that suits Tottenham’s squad down to the ground.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Schrödinger hoped that the wave might literally describe an electron smeared out in space — a real object that could be visualized — but Born quickly realized that this dream was too simple to be true.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 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
Verb
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Butler never imagined Zimmerer – a typically non-spontaneous person – would drop everything to book a flight and travel more than 1,500 miles from Nebraska to be there.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Longo is known for his photorealistic paintings and drawings, but many of his works are an amalgamation of images real, imagined, and tweaked.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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Trump's first term was plagued by internal sabotage from bureaucrats and agency officers who fancied themselves a coequal branch of government.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Chelsea and Aston Villa assets were highly fancied going into Gameweek 1, with a large proportion of managers opting to double-up on their players.—
Holly Shand,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Inspired by the serene beauty of Denmark’s small islands, Ø was envisaged as a cocoon-like experience.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
2 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps Harari’s cognitive revolution went something like what was envisaged by Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology Joseph Henrich.—
Madeleine Beekman
August 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Just like the World Cup and European Championship, the idea for the competition was conceived and implemented by Frenchmen.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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The home was conceived as much for entertainment as for solitude.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Daydreamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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