fantasies 1 of 2

variants also phantasies
plural of fantasy

fantasies

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fantasy

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fantasies
Noun
At one point, the women even share fantasies about killing their boss. Shima Oliaee, Time, 26 Aug. 2026 Ancient buildings are not fantasies beyond reach, but the living evidence of history’s continuing line. Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 But those ads fueled my childhood music fantasies in ways that still hit deep for me. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026 Paul Anthony Kelly looks comfortable traversing both fantasies. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026 The Acton teen accused of killing his mother and younger brother after first working out his violent fantasies through chats with the AI bot ChatGPT was ordered held without bail. Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2026 This is the same thing, only moms are living their I-wish-when-I-was-in-college fantasies through their daughters. Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 But an upcoming drone show themed to the wizarding world may be the best chance for Sacramentans to live out their Hogwarts fantasies. Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026 From Churchill onward, many British leaders clung to fantasies of global power and splendid isolation from Europe, fantasies that culminated in the disaster of Brexit. Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasies
Noun
  • McGehean says this emphasis on working well together is the only way to achieve dreams.
    Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • His videos drew dozens of aspiring food truck owners, many of them immigrants like Ochoa, who entrusted him with their life savings in hopes of turning their dreams into a livelihood.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • For nearly that whole time, popular fictions have been trying to make American history more palatable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The ultimate object of these fictions is disorientation, more than belief.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Switzerland imagines Highsmith as a recluse in the Alps, closely guarding a cache of weapons and secrets after a lifetime spent writing mysteries.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have contrasting visions for the region and beyond, including Libya, Sudan, and Yemen.
    Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The 20th century in particular abounded in such visions, some of which—The Handmaid’s Tale, or Brave New World, published in 1932 and getting spookier every day—have proved more prophetic than others.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • As is common with these tales of sliding doors, the narrative isn’t linear.
    Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Perhaps this saga of planetary conquest is also a sly commentary on Hollywood imperialism, in which even the most far-flung of small-town tales must be overwhelmed by big-name stars in visual-effects drag.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After a period of over-the-limit warming, the new strategy envisions getting back below the limit by ending fossil fuel use and developing some kind of way to suck industries' carbon dioxide out of the air.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The gentle track sees John reflect on parenthood and envisions watching his son grow up.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • As a dad of two daughters, Murdy said he’s made a conscious effort to create strong female-centric original stories like KILLceañera for Horror Nights.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The current building code typically allows a single staircase for residential buildings with three stories or less.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

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“Fantasies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasies. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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