as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury
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Recent Examples of fantasize
In this scenario, Eleven got away and traveled somewhere safe — someplace with multiple waterfalls, just like the ones Mike fantasized about for them.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
While other kids fantasized about movie stars, Marty daydreamed about table tennis pros.
—Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Anyone who fantasizes about the new and improved version of themselves that awaits on the other side of the ball drop can relate to the special blend of optimism and self-criticism that the New Year often holds.
—Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
In the face of that reality—the death, functionally, of the American dream—millennials, Gen Zers and Gen Alphaers have started fantasizing about the abolition of money, of technology, of progress entirely, to the point of dreaming about regressing away from humanity itself.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Jan. 2026
While other kids fantasized about movie stars, Marty daydreamed about table tennis pros.
—Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
Anyone who fantasizes about the new and improved version of themselves that awaits on the other side of the ball drop can relate to the special blend of optimism and self-criticism that the New Year often holds.
—Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
In the face of that reality—the death, functionally, of the American dream—millennials, Gen Zers and Gen Alphaers have started fantasizing about the abolition of money, of technology, of progress entirely, to the point of dreaming about regressing away from humanity itself.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasize
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More than a cat-and-mouse game between him and them, the series uses that procedural framework to imagine, in psychologically astute and electrifyingly strange ways, an entire world altered by The Beauty.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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Following a major dining room and menu upgrade, a popular Connecticut Italian restaurant is now popping with meatballs Nonna likely never imagined making.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2026
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For Hunter Henry, merely winning was hard enough to envision once.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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But the Navy air station on the territory closed in 1948, and the islands never became the significant military asset once envisioned.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Ready to see what all of the hype is about?—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Therapy is shifting from the classic dyad of therapist-client to the new triad of therapist-AI-client, see my discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In a marketplace where brands fight for emotional relevance, recycling already has the emotional tailwind marketers dream of.—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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In 2008, after the Democrats’ sweeping victory of the White House and Congress, the longtime Republican operative Ralph Reed began studying exit polls to understand why so many conservatives who wouldn’t have dreamed of voting for Al Gore or John Kerry had supported Obama.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Fantasize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasize. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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