fantasizing

present participle of fantasize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fantasizing After learning her daughter will not return to Chile, however, she is forced to stop fantasizing about others’ lives and find comfort in unexpected places. John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025 For something completely different, some investors have been picking up value stocks rather than fantasizing about the possibilities of Silicon Valley’s dream world. John Navin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 People are fantasizing about the railroad. Manuela López Restrepo, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025 In the Rolling Stone interview, the Latin music superstar also admitted to occasionally fantasizing about taking his wrestling career full-time. Nathan Kamal, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025 Does that mean that everyone who learns to shoot for self-defense is fantasizing about shooting people? Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2025 Will Smith stars as a penniless Anthony Ramos lookalike fish named Oscar, who wiles away his days scrubbing cetaceans’ tongues clean in the 'Whale Wash,' fantasizing about the good life. Them, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasizing
Verb
  • The comments were full of playful quips imagining what the pups might get up to behind closed doors.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • DaCosta’s re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler shifts the story from 19th-century Norway to 1950s Britain.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ellen wonders, dejected and clearly envisioning her own future.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That preparation can include qualifying potential deal partners, envisioning a game plan to test buyer demand and preparing executive summaries to set the table for negotiations.
    Frank Williamson, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Altman and other top technologists, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and computer science professors Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, have been dreaming of constructing superintelligent systems for decades—as well as fearing them.
    Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The 25-year-old is also dreaming of something more personal.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Several workers have also described seeing a few 20-something, red haired men with a mischievous vibe.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The girl also reported seeing inappropriate images on the screensaver of an iPad at Berrelez’s home.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Crossing the finish line in 10th and 11th is not how either Tim Van de Velde or Carlos San Martín would have been picturing the men’s 3,000m steeplechase qualifier on Saturday.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Likewise, picturing yourself someday needing help with eating, dressing, or walking is very different from already relying on that help every day.
    Maya Cakmak, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Fantasizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasizing. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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