variants
or dreamt
as in imagined
to form a mental picture of
I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific
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Recent Examples of dreamed
Officials dreamed of a futuristic span serving people crossing from Sacramento’s burgeoning Railyards development and beautifying a riverfront.
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The profits from Snow White were used to build Walt’s long-dreamt-of animation studio, organized on the modern Taylorist factory model.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
At 28, David dreamed of creating work as powerful as those images.
—Andrew Durbin, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
In an obituary, Anna Kepner was remembered as a bubbly high school senior who dreamed of continuing cheerleading at the University of Georgia.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
He had been accepted at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and dreamed of opening his own thing, whatever that thing might be.
—Danielle Paquette The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
Morgan once dreamed of being an actress in New York and is growing restless as a schoolteacher in a stale relationship with Max (Jack Innanen), who she’s known forever.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Glover is a Pomona native who dreamed of becoming an astronaut while flying through the air as a pole vaulter at Ontario High School.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Both Khaliq and Mehtab Khan have long since dreamed of opening a business together.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The profits from Snow White were used to build Walt’s long-dreamt-of animation studio, organized on the modern Taylorist factory model.
—Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
At 28, David dreamed of creating work as powerful as those images.
—Andrew Durbin, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
In an obituary, Anna Kepner was remembered as a bubbly high school senior who dreamed of continuing cheerleading at the University of Georgia.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026
He had been accepted at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and dreamed of opening his own thing, whatever that thing might be.
—Danielle Paquette The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
Morgan once dreamed of being an actress in New York and is growing restless as a schoolteacher in a stale relationship with Max (Jack Innanen), who she’s known forever.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Glover is a Pomona native who dreamed of becoming an astronaut while flying through the air as a pole vaulter at Ontario High School.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Both Khaliq and Mehtab Khan have long since dreamed of opening a business together.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreamed
Verb
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Grunhaus, Popescu, and Rohrlich imagined jamming as a kind of super-entanglement that could interfere with entangled particles.—
Matt von Hippel,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Apr. 2026
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They were imagined by elite writers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Two astronauts will aim for the south polar region, the preferred location for Isaacman’s envisioned $20 billion to $30 billion moon base.—
Marcia Dunn,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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In 1949, Arthur Miller envisioned the American Dream as a kind of spiritual opioid crisis — a profitable system of addiction, this one to a beautiful lie, that was literally killing people.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Moving a blade back and forth to try to saw biscuits apart will make their layers stick (and ruin the rise).—
Ella Quittner,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Ruggeri says that, in comparison to saw palmetto, which gets far more attention.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Dreamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreamed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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