fantasized

past tense of fantasize

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Recent Examples of fantasized There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid. Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 The brand's return has been fantasized for years and ecstatically anticipated ever since Marc Jacobs Beauty was credited for the makeup in Jacobs's spring 2026 New York Fashion Week show. Marci Robin, Allure, 20 May 2026 For anyone who’s ever fantasized about riding horseback on a beach with a salty breeze blowing in the air, this is the place to satisfy your wildest whims. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 May 2026 For years the sisters had fantasized, half-seriously, about having their own YouTube channel. Scot Paltrow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026 The new sound became a global fad, even in the locales that exotica artists fantasized about. H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 7 Jan. 2026 In this scenario, Eleven got away and traveled somewhere safe — someplace with multiple waterfalls, just like the ones Mike fantasized about for them. 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 Republicans even lost the Virginia attorney general race to a Democrat who had fantasized about killing his political rival and their children. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasized
Verb
  • Nor have complex land improvements like drainage or irrigation or flood control developed in a system imagined by private-sector maximalist author Ayn Rand.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 July 2026
  • The 15% of us in the class of 1976 could not have imagined a school where today women fill almost half the seats.
    Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Kiesler and his heirs envisioned architecture that would make the arts more available, provisional, improvisational, democratic, and participatory, more playful and less aloof.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
  • Argent plans to build 1,200 to 1,500 units on the site, envisioned as a walkable, bikeable community where hospital employees could eventually travel on foot between work and home, Soyka said.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • That finally changed in 2019 when Disney completed its acquisition of Fox, bringing the X-Men rights under Marvel’s control and opening the door for the crossover fans had dreamed about for years.
    Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
  • One reader still dreamed about the South 21 cheeseburger a decade after going vegetarian.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • In the book, Covey tells the story of a man relentlessly sawing down a tree.
    Tony Gambill, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026
  • Jordan Walker, sawed off by a 96 mph sinker, lined out softly.
    Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2026

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“Fantasized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasized. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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