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also phantasies
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as in dreams
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
a constant daydreamer who started to believe his own fantasies
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as in fictions
something that is the product of the imagination
we were coming to the conclusion that the person Karen "saw" in the woods was another one of her fantasies
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as in imagines
to form a mental picture of
She regularly fantasies exciting adventures.
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Recent Examples of fantasies
Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.
—Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Inspired in part by Gillian Anderson’s compendium of women’s erotic fantasies, Want, as well as Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, Superbloom is, in theory, a manifestation of Ware’s deepest desires.
—Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
This show is written like someone’s sick fantasies come to life.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026
Phones would already be ringing in the concrete innards of One Police Plaza, and every crank in the New York City area would be busy pouring out their darkest fantasies.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
The dream targets are Boston’s Brad Stevens and Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti, but those are fantasies.
—Mac Engel
april 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026
If justice means anything any more, a federal judge will easily swipe through Hegseth’s nebulous legal fantasies, and preserve the possibility that someday, the Endangered Species Act might actually help save endangered species in the Gulf.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
The manic pixie American dream girl of this nation's deepest, darkest fantasies.
—Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
The sophisticated set by ace production designer David Gropman enables Altman’s perpetually moving and zooming camera to drift in and out of two-way mirrors that depict memories and fantasies with both immediacy and a gauzy nostalgia.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.
—Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Inspired in part by Gillian Anderson’s compendium of women’s erotic fantasies, Want, as well as Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, Superbloom is, in theory, a manifestation of Ware’s deepest desires.
—Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
This show is written like someone’s sick fantasies come to life.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026
Phones would already be ringing in the concrete innards of One Police Plaza, and every crank in the New York City area would be busy pouring out their darkest fantasies.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
The dream targets are Boston’s Brad Stevens and Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti, but those are fantasies.
—Mac Engel
april 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026
If justice means anything any more, a federal judge will easily swipe through Hegseth’s nebulous legal fantasies, and preserve the possibility that someday, the Endangered Species Act might actually help save endangered species in the Gulf.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
The manic pixie American dream girl of this nation's deepest, darkest fantasies.
—Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasies
Noun
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Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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Tess saved four lives through organ donation, and scholarships in her honor are now helping young people chase their own dreams.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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One tweet features an AI cover of a fake Slayr album called BURGERMAN that imagines him as a half-burger, half-human hybrid engulfed in a hellish flood of grease and cheese splatter.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 May 2026
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In the year 2027 (which is somehow just one year from now, please stop, passage of time), Children of Men imagines a world where women have been infertile for years, dooming humanity to a slow extinction.—
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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Their shared trip gradually turns into a confrontation with their own lives, relationships and visions of the future.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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There are many competing visions of how technology and military strategy should be combined in the Gulf’s waters, some of which cross into the bizarre.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
4 May 2026
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Boyson and co-screenwriter Ricky Camilleri overlap tales of two seemingly opposite young guys – wealthy New York teen Balthazar Malone (Jaeden Martell, a casting coup) and loner Texas trailer-park dweller Solomon Jackson (Asa Butterfield, in one of his best performances yet).—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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But there are amazing tales of survival as well.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Initially aimed at Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) for wind farms and Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) for the oil industry, Vard envisions this technology eventually forming a charging infrastructure along the entire Norwegian coast.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 May 2026
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The revised Treasury-Fed accord Warsh envisions would in some, still-unspecified, way govern the size and potentially composition of the Fed's balance sheet.—
Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
4 May 2026
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Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The family car is a Mazda, but Zac daydreams of a Bugatti Veyron.—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Through their discussions, and the essays and stories that they were assigned to write each week, Heidi came to know her students’ pain.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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Each day, they are filled with one-dimensional stories of beatings, stabbing and shootings — all sad accounts of a city in decline.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2026
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“Fantasies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasies. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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