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stargazing

verb

Definition of stargazing

present participle of stargaze

as in daydreaming

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A lot of times, the job involves dreaming about the next possibility while also sometimes being met with the possibility that your best days are behind you.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 31 July 2026
That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

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View gallery - 3 images People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 19 July 2026
In the hyper-online world of Heated Rivalry and Challengers, fantasizing about hot athletes being a little (or very) gay has never been more fun and communal.

— Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026

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The feature launched globally on the web version of Google Earth earlier this week, and Google’s blog post pitched it as a tool for visualizing historical sites and real estate projects.

— Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 31 July 2026
Other use cases for Google Earth’s image generation include visualizing future or imaginary projects.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026

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The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

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Shortly before García hit a go-ahead home run 100 miles north in his first game wearing pinstripes, Wood was removed from the game with an oblique issue that requires imaging.

— Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Simultaneously, an Irish Air Corps C-295 aircraft will perform a similar flight, with scientists on board from the European Space Agency and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies imaging the sun’s corona using a spare part an ESA space mission.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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At the lower end of the survey’s spectrum and considerably more balanced sits marijuana regulation, with only 31% of respondents considering the topic to be important for people to understand, and 23% of respondents fancying themselves as highly informed on the matter.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 7 June 2026
And there was a smattering of other items, which the visitor, fancying himself an amateur academic archeologist, thought worth noting.

— Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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