as in imagined
to form a mental picture of
all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury
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Recent Examples of fantasized
Those who only fantasized about positive outcomes showed lower systolic blood pressure than those who visualized success and then thought through potential obstacles and backup plans.
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Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sure, Timothy stole a gun and fantasized about killing his wife and son, but the gun is gone.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Following the runaway success of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in 2000 ($465 million in business at the box office and five Academy Awards, including best picture), the director fantasized for years about making a sequel.
—Elaina Patton, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Young Asquith fantasized becoming the next Richard Branson—arguably the last person to create an airline from passion and force of personality.
—Jonathan Soroff, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
As gay men have moved from the periphery to the center, many have fantasized about life in a pre-gentrified New York City, in the kinds of scruffy lofts where artists like Hujar spent their lives.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Foxx fantasized about ordering an Apple Crisp Macchiato once Starbucks can reopen.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
During the Cold War, its operatives fantasized about weakening and maybe even unraveling NATO and subverting the cohesiveness of the West.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2019
Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sure, Timothy stole a gun and fantasized about killing his wife and son, but the gun is gone.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Following the runaway success of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in 2000 ($465 million in business at the box office and five Academy Awards, including best picture), the director fantasized for years about making a sequel.
—Elaina Patton, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Young Asquith fantasized becoming the next Richard Branson—arguably the last person to create an airline from passion and force of personality.
—Jonathan Soroff, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
As gay men have moved from the periphery to the center, many have fantasized about life in a pre-gentrified New York City, in the kinds of scruffy lofts where artists like Hujar spent their lives.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Foxx fantasized about ordering an Apple Crisp Macchiato once Starbucks can reopen.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
During the Cold War, its operatives fantasized about weakening and maybe even unraveling NATO and subverting the cohesiveness of the West.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasized
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Christopher Smith does this in a physical way, going from one dimension to another that’s as different from his own life as can possibly be imagined.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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While Amon’s keynote address in Maui imagined a future with numerous AI agents working on-device, the current reality is more modest.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.—
Angus Fletcher,
Big Think,
29 Sep. 2025
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No one in the Ravens organization envisioned such a start.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The trees were cut down, sawed in half, hollowed out and tied back together for the musicians to use.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
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Fanatics shared the moment Tennessee Titans first overall pick, quarterback Cam Ward, saw Brady pop up on the screen to give him some wise words.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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With its emphasis on competitiveness and staying on the edge of technological advancement, plus the perks, Intel was the place where graduates of top computer science schools, such as Caltech, dreamed of landing a gig.—
Lila MacLellan,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Steve Sax is the homegrown kid who dreamed big and achieved it.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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