as in trance
the state of being lost in thought
if you're bored while traveling, daydreaming is a perfectly normal state to be in, regardless of what the road signs say
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Noun
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Three years after their auspicious debut, the young Chicago rock trio’s new album features this insatiable lead single — a quick, crunchy guitar track that’s been putting me in a trance for months.—
Alex Suskind,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025 -
From its beginnings in the early 1990s, K-pop was heavily influenced by rap and hip-hop, and aespa’s takes those origins and adds some dance and trance sounds to it.—
Sara Murphy,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, Schwartz is still dreaming.—
Leila Jordan,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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Powerful storms could fuel travel chaos this week as heavy rains are forecast for the West Coast while in the Central and Eastern states brutal cold and precipitation could snarl traffic but provide smiles for millions dreaming of a white Christmas.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Columbia is reportedly in negotiations with the presidential administration to refer to the receivership of the Middle Eastern studies department as something more palatable, according to the Wall Street Journal.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, a recent study found that professional historians performed worse than professional fact-checkers at identifying online misinformation.—
Lightning Jay,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The formula is simply dreamy to the touch and glides effortlessly onto skin with little blending required.—
Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2025
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There’s a dreamy quality to each scene, which destabilizes confidence in what’s real.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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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,
Them,
23 Dec. 2024
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Trust me, this elegant, historic hotel just lends itself to fantasizing.—
Lois Alter Mark,
Forbes,
4 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The entries are a mixture of sense memory, adolescent embarrassment, nostalgic fashions and foods, daydreams, and anything else that falls through the sieve of Brainard’s disarmingly casual syntax.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino] Noah Lennox brings the sunshine—and, for the first time on a Panda Bear album, nearly all of his Animal Collective bandmates—on Sinister Grift, an album of spongy psychedelic daydreams and melodies that yearn and enchant.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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On March 11, Rodgers was seen looking pensive during a beachside stroll in Malibu, Calif.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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His conversational style in interviews is pensive and soft-spoken, almost professorial, which hooked up to the note of insistence just underneath the angel-cake vocal beauty.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The absorbed or scattered light creates a unique pattern called the spectrum, which is effectively the substance’s fingerprint.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
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Although the mercury hovered at only 5°, all of us became so absorbed in the rabbit chase that no one noticed numb toes and cold ears.—
Erwin A. Bauer,
Outdoor Life,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Daydreaming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreaming. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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