as in imagined
to form a mental picture of
all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury
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Recent Examples of fantasized
Foxx fantasized about ordering an Apple Crisp Macchiato once Starbucks can reopen.
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Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasized
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And the president’s job is far more complex than the 18th-century framers of the Constitution could have imagined.Jennifer Selin, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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This new medical paradigm impacted not only how external threats were imagined—the hordes of viruses, spores and prions who now appeared to be always threatening to break through our defences—but also how the internal world of the body was envisioned.Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
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The Rams envisioned Williams starting opposite Tre’Davious White, a former All-Pro for the Buffalo Bills who was coming off Achilles surgery.Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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That formal change in Russia’s nuclear doctrine — which had previously envisioned a nuclear response only in the event of an existential threat to Russia — grabbed headlines and stirred a fresh round of debate in Western capitals.Simon Shuster, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
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But most are satisfied with the sounds of scraping, sawing, sanding, drilling and hammering.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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As previously mentioned, there’s a scene in which a Weeknd gets sawed in half.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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But Celia always dreamed of being a writer.Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Viewers have dreamt of getting their hands on a real-life Krabby Patty for more than two decades and the burger chain is delivering on the fantasy.Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Fantasized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasized. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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