as in romantics
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
a dreamer who believes that war doesn't have to be part of the human condition
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Recent Examples of dreamers
In January, Zapata will open a flight center near Las Vegas, where dreamers can fly on a geofenced track that winds around the roughly 50-acre property.
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J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Continue To Dream At the heart of every nonprofit is a desire for transformative change—a testament to the dreamers and visionaries who brave challenges in pursuit of a better world.
—Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In sleep labs, researchers train dreamers to signal lucidity through deliberate eye movements, which can be time-stamped using electrooculography (EOG).
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Like legions of dreamers before him, McGuirk started on film and TV sets as a PA, an often thankless job where random castigations from members of the cast or crew can be par for the course.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Continue To Dream At the heart of every nonprofit is a desire for transformative change—a testament to the dreamers and visionaries who brave challenges in pursuit of a better world.
—Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In sleep labs, researchers train dreamers to signal lucidity through deliberate eye movements, which can be time-stamped using electrooculography (EOG).
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreamers
romantics
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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Those attributes — earning Piccioli a reputation in fashion as one of its great romantics — were also apparent in his designs for Balenciaga, which incorporated plenty of thoughtful details that referenced the archive.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Dreamers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreamers. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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