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daydreaming

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adjective

daydreaming

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verb

present participle of daydream

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of daydreaming
Verb
Those daydreaming of taking in the sweeping sunrise vistas across Middle Harbour just got lucky because one of the most significant abodes on the street just surfaced on market for the first time in over four decades. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025 This is a train ride for daydreaming, drawing, reading, playing cards, or any other low-tech pursuit. Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025 Maladaptive daydreaming is a form of intense daydreaming characterized by the creation of unrealistic or fantastical situations, conversations, or stories in one’s own mind that are outside the realm of a person’s day-to-day life. Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreaming
Noun
  • Matisse dressed the part of a British gentleman and gazed at his conversation partners with a serenity that bordered on a trance.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Wendy slips into a trance state and begins to channel Lizzo.
    Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Altman and other top technologists, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and computer science professors Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, have been dreaming of constructing superintelligent systems for decades—as well as fearing them.
    Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The 25-year-old is also dreaming of something more personal.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Just last month, a series of public meetings was held throughout the region looking at the results of a study aimed at helping residents figure out how to cope with that rapid growth.
    Juan Cordoba, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Her attorney, Jim Campbell, said Colorado is pointing to studies that lump together the kind of counseling Chiles wants to do with shock therapy and other aversive treatments that have been used in the past.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But the Nespresso Aeroccino 4 struggled to give me those dreamy clouds of foam, especially with oat milk.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The film unfolds in a dreamy, meandering flow, following Mark around the world and into his home, gliding from the pressures of the octagon (where MMA athletes duke it out) to scenes of more quotidian domesticity.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After learning her daughter will not return to Chile, however, she is forced to stop fantasizing about others’ lives and find comfort in unexpected places.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • For something completely different, some investors have been picking up value stocks rather than fantasizing about the possibilities of Silicon Valley’s dream world.
    John Navin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The series can feel like a collective daydream.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Drawing fact and daydream together, Kelsey inserts herself into Loy’s story, acting like a bystander during interactions between Loy and Marcel Duchamp or Gertrude Stein.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Stephen depicts the women’s schooltime bond in hypnotic flashbacks, and their separation largely through absence itself, with gliding, pensive shots of places—rooms, buildings, streets—where the women have been and may be again but which, onscreen, are vacant.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • While she's drawn toward mindful and pensive reads, the former Today host appreciates some powerful fiction as well.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Looking ahead — as in envisioning your presence at upcoming business events — can expose you to opportunities that broaden your perspective.
    Sarah Maokosy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Ellen wonders, dejected and clearly envisioning her own future.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Daydreaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreaming. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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