1
as in imagining
to form a mental picture of
try to fancy, if you can, our mother on an elephant when she was touring India
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as in enjoying
to take pleasure in
the teacher didn't fancy the idea of failing the student, even if he was the class clown
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Recent Examples of fancying
And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.
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Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancying
Verb
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Slaves began imagining the possibility of freedom.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Williams recently celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary and was enjoying his retirement after a career making bulletproof equipment, family members said.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2026
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As for Palm Beach Pete, the doppelgänger is very much alive and seems to be enjoying the attention.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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He’s still based at Salt Lake City International, where his 20-year-old daughter works as a TSA agent, and says that seeing his former colleagues struggling is difficult.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Mar. 2026
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In terms of the commitment to doing a greater number of local shows, the idea is subscribers will be seeing more from their home countries, and more often.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
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But before Scott Sandelin hired Larson as assistant coach at University of Minnesota-Duluth and abruptly ended his budding medical sales career, the quickest thing Larson learned was that sales is mostly about people liking you and relationships.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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First, scammers promise easy money for simple tasks lsuch as liking videos or boosting views.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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Although the central story is intimate in scale, the film’s scope is large and its social purview deep, and this vast amplitude is a function of Ouédraogo’s way of staging action, or, rather, of envisioning it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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Beyond the arena, Welts shared fresh details about the entertainment district the team is envisioning with its next home.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Baked into our calendar and customs are endless mechanisms for marking time, for savoring, for taking stock, for starting fresh.—
Risa Polansky Shiman,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
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But quite a few others loathe Dubai and are savoring its comeuppance.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
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Matlin knows a little about dreaming big.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Sleep architecture maps out how a person transitions through different sleep stages, such as light sleep and dreaming (REM), as well as how sound affects someone during each of these different stages.—
Laura Kiniry,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Kicking off with the patriarch, Joe, Wills’ masterpiece is a great counterpoint to only loving looks.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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The controversial, pizza-loving Barstool Sports founder rescued Miss Peaches from The LifeLine Animal Project in Atlanta on Valentine’s Day 2024.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Fancying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancying. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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