reverie

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This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.

From Slate • May 8, 2025

But as he travels home on the boat, shutting out the world with giant sunglasses and a baggy hoodie, Lochlan doesn’t really seem to have learned anything from his reverie.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025

Startled from their reverie, flurries of native hens - which piyura kitina is named after - scatter over the mossy grass as we arrive.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

And Old Chong kept conducting his own private reverie.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan