fantasizer

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Noun
  • Spoiler alert on this 400-year-old novel, but Don Quixote doesn't actually slay any giants or rescue any princesses.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps Albacete could even emulate Don Quixote.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • John Beltran is Detroit techno’s foremost daydreamer.
    Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The chronic daydreamer can easily identify with Catherine’s near-delusional longing for something to happen beyond the courtships and evenings around the pianoforte that seem to make up the better part of her future.
    Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But the old romantic in us still tries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And for the hopeless romantics among us, there’s confessions of love, yearning, and unlikely lovers.
    De Elizabeth, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That appeals to the sentimentalist in me.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ever the optimist, Obama shifted out of his defensive posture.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Wall Street optimists in good company BofA’s research team isn’t alone in reaching for history as a rebuttal to panic.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
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“Fantasizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasizer. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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