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also phantasies
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as in dreams
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies
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2
as in fictions
something that is the product of the imagination
we were coming to the conclusion that the person Karen "saw" in the woods was another one of her fantasies
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as in imagines
to form a mental picture of
She regularly fantasies exciting adventures.
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Recent Examples of fantasies
Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
Known for its signature vibrant psychedelic prints, the designs are summer personified, enticing fans with fantasies of wearing them by the pool, Aperol spritz in hand.
—Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
The Jackson Estate is supposed to be a prudent, fiscally responsible entity that supports the Jackson family – not a slush fund to help John Branca live out his Hollywood mogul fantasies.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
Last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live (streaming on Peacock) poked fun at maternal fantasies, with a little twist, Erik Adams writes.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
The sophisticated set by ace production designer David Gropman enables Altman’s perpetually moving and zooming camera to drift in and out of two-way mirrors that depict memories and fantasies with both immediacy and a gauzy nostalgia.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
Inspired in part by Gillian Anderson’s compendium of women’s erotic fantasies, Want, as well as Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, Superbloom is, in theory, a manifestation of Ware’s deepest desires.
—Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
This show is written like someone’s sick fantasies come to life.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026
Phones would already be ringing in the concrete innards of One Police Plaza, and every crank in the New York City area would be busy pouring out their darkest fantasies.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
Known for its signature vibrant psychedelic prints, the designs are summer personified, enticing fans with fantasies of wearing them by the pool, Aperol spritz in hand.
—Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
The Jackson Estate is supposed to be a prudent, fiscally responsible entity that supports the Jackson family – not a slush fund to help John Branca live out his Hollywood mogul fantasies.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
Last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live (streaming on Peacock) poked fun at maternal fantasies, with a little twist, Erik Adams writes.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
The sophisticated set by ace production designer David Gropman enables Altman’s perpetually moving and zooming camera to drift in and out of two-way mirrors that depict memories and fantasies with both immediacy and a gauzy nostalgia.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
Inspired in part by Gillian Anderson’s compendium of women’s erotic fantasies, Want, as well as Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, Superbloom is, in theory, a manifestation of Ware’s deepest desires.
—Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
This show is written like someone’s sick fantasies come to life.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026
Phones would already be ringing in the concrete innards of One Police Plaza, and every crank in the New York City area would be busy pouring out their darkest fantasies.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasies
Noun
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Around him, siblings, lovers and friends face CIA threats, tourist-rental anxieties, drug-dealing producers, secret desire and lottery dreams in a choral portrait of love, family and frustrated escape.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Each gets stage time to speak at length about their dreams, both realized and broken, and regrets.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
11 May 2026
Noun
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The curiosity, sensitivity, and imagination of children will always demand new and ambitious fictions.—
Mac Barnett,
Longreads,
5 May 2026
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Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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One tweet features an AI cover of a fake Slayr album called BURGERMAN that imagines him as a half-burger, half-human hybrid engulfed in a hellish flood of grease and cheese splatter.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 May 2026
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In the year 2027 (which is somehow just one year from now, please stop, passage of time), Children of Men imagines a world where women have been infertile for years, dooming humanity to a slow extinction.—
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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The young military leader who claimed to receive divine visions was honored as a saint in 1920.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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Protect your peace and your long-term visions.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Because either McCluskie is one heck of a con man who rolled both Becerra and Williamson, making both believe what was happening was kosher with entirely different tales, or someone isn’t being entirely honest.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
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But even Black athletes whose athleticism gifted them an extremely exclusive express lane in life can tell you stories about growing up a minority in America, or tales their parents or grandparents have told.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
Verb
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That disconnect between what a person envisions and what their phone actually records, eventually became the founding thesis behind WayShot.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Star Catcher envisions its power-node system as complementing nuclear generators rather than supplanting them, according to Rush.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
12 May 2026
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Nina, Karen and Caroline started appearing in my daydreams, full of vigor and life lessons.—
Jennifer Acker,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
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Some stories plant deep in your creative brain and come out through songs heard on the radio and random daydreams in the shower.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Through their discussions, and the essays and stories that they were assigned to write each week, Heidi came to know her students’ pain.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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Each day, they are filled with one-dimensional stories of beatings, stabbing and shootings — all sad accounts of a city in decline.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2026
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“Fantasies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasies. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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