daydream

The success of the bearded, ass-kicking Ranger marked a stunning reversal of fortune for Norris, who grew up a shy, unathletic child, who "used to daydream about being strong...to beat up the bullies".

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Shortly after “My Name is Khan” was released, I wrote that the Mumbai film industry at times resembled “a cross between a Michael Moore daydream and an Al Jazeera documentary.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

For millennials and Gen Z kids like mine, there was once a golden era when you could just daydream all day about getting your invitation to Hogwarts without any associations with a full-time transphobe.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

This kind of thinking is everywhere: Blue Origin is sending Katy Perry way high up into the sky, a stunt to help sell a sci-fi daydream of one day taking a bus to Moon.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

Someone said later she’d gone off into a daydream, but I was pretty sure, as was Ruth, that she was thinking hard about what to say next.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Nolan Ryan’s fastball, the power of ritual, musical daydreams and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

Researchers have begun poking around in our musical daydreams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

As long as J.D.’s daydreams and goofy bromance with Turk remain, I’m all in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

On the itchy, impatient Can Time Move Faster, she daydreams about escaping its grasp.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

I’d had pathetic daydreams and silly fantasies and had devoted many pages in my journal to entirely forgettable people I’d known and quickly discarded over the years.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

If you’ve ever daydreamed about covering some part of the famous roadway, hop on in and let’s get our kicks, shall we?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Commander Murphy likened Khalife to the self-aggrandising fictional character Walter Mitty, who daydreamed about extraordinary personal triumphs.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

For years, April had daydreamed about seeing Hunter again, imagining that he would still be the little boy she remembered.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024

But since his death on Apr. 1, their mother, Inshirah — who once daydreamed of seeing Saifeddin get married — has been unable to accept that he is gone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

In the glass, I see James staring at the back of me, and I wonder has he daydreamed about me the way I’ve daydreamed about him.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

The album concludes with another memory song – L.E.S – which finds Madonna daydreaming about an early crush on a guitar-playing boy from New York's Lower East Side.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

You are standing in line alongside everyone else, daydreaming about whatever, when, out of the corner of your eye, you see a few men sprinting down the street in the opposite direction.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

When a promotion affords her a workspace, she cultivates a fixation with paperweights, which help keep her daydreaming grounded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

She doesn’t need many words to create an entire landscape, and repeatedly, the reader will find that they’re daydreaming right alongside our heroine.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

I suddenly felt like she knew exactly what I’d been daydreaming about just then.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore