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
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 Feeding such fantasies is the job of impresarios like Rachel Sussman. William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Shamelessness has been central to Trump’s business and political success, and his reaction to setbacks is to deny objective facts and construct fantasies of achievement. Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026 Your routine could feel unbearably repetitive, sparking fantasies of abandoning the whole thing. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasies
Noun
  • Apart from the condition in the bottles, the liquid in them is the stuff of collectors’ wildest dreams.
    Tony Sachs, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • With her big dreams and determination, Shyniyah hopes to one day become the President of the United States.
    The Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The ultimate object of these fictions is disorientation, more than belief.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
    Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • The meanest part of the book is when Cusk imagines M at a fake literary salon being thrown by an unnamed fashion brand.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Stephenson is a novelist whose books have shaped how the tech industry imagines its own future.
    Mya Copeland, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Her final film Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller about a mother who has fightening visions after losing her daughter in a car accident, was released in January.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Education is expected to be a central issue in those races, with candidates offering competing visions for improving student outcomes and strengthening public schools.
    Jason Burns, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The two dashing newcomers have since been regaling the Georgia Aquarium’s existing belugas, a quartet of females*, with tales of their peregrinations.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • From a shark attack and skydiving accident to a near plane crash, the adrenaline junkie shared his tales of his extreme adventuring with the outlet.
    Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, envisions building space habitats that could house billions as a solution to environmental catastrophes on Earth.
    Marissa E. Yingling, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
  • SpaceX envisions Starmind and its other AI efforts as returning almost unimaginable profits down the road.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Aug. 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
  • The explanation behind this family man’s strange case is well chronicled in many Chicago and New York news stories.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
  • At Khan & Kumar Media, we’re drawn to stories that resonate across cultures and borders, and ‘Forgotten Spaceman’ does exactly that.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Aug. 2026

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