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[dreem] / drim /




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Jaissle refused to give up, and "kept the dream for a lot longer than the doctors did", but the setback ultimately curtailed his career and he retired a few years later in 2014.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Carnegie Mellon will make that dream happen for the people of Miami, just as it does for the people of Pittsburgh.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Getting to work with Emmanuel Lubezki was something out of a dream sequence, and I learned so much from getting to watch his genius in action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The American dream should work for everyone, and Washington and the private sector must step up to meet the moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The images in my dream rolled back again.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

"I arrived like so many others: a suitcase full of dreams and fears," he wrote in June 2025 in one of his columns for the newspaper La Presse.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

There is still plenty of Dickensian melodrama, especially when Livia relates the sequence of catastrophes that account for her transformation from a virtuoso with dreams of stardom to a small-town piano teacher and farmer’s wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

It all reduces to the promise of small daily actions that, over time, build into the conquest of your wildest dreams.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

“She loved seeing her dreams come to life, and loved knowing her work brought people joy,” Nozell said in the statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

We are such stuff as dreams are made on.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

McBurnie, not so much the prodigal son but now the forgiven one, had that big chance six minutes into the new half - the one he would have dreamed about.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Mr. Warrack describes removing an approximately 3-foot-deep layer of pigeon excrement from Rome’s Church of SS Vincenzo e Anastasio, “which revealed a multitude of squirming horrors that even Hieronymus Bosch never dreamed of.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We never dreamed anything like this would ever happen to us, turning people from trusting to everybody wanting to get alarm systems and security lights.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

“It was everything we dreamed of and more,” his wife later wrote on Instagram.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

She had dreamed that the man in the moon had Edward Ashton’s face and followed her everywhere she went.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Ever since he was a young boy and his father relocated to the USA, Godwin Forde had dreamt of living there too.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I’ve spent my entire twenties sitting across from the most incredible people, people I’d always dreamt of meeting,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

From a modest family, he dreamt of becoming a computer engineer to "change his life", he told AFP, withholding his surname because "the fear is still there".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Money itself is just a construct, one with rules dreamt up by humans.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

I dreamt that I was in the Apollo and the Shirelles were there.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

"Sleep may appear peaceful, but the brain is highly active -- especially when dreaming. We were intrigued by this paradox, and wanted to look into the scientific basis behind why dreaming is somehow tiring."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Evenepoel began his athletic career dreaming of playing soccer for the Belgian national team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Now, like many Iranian students dreaming of a future elsewhere, she is scrambling to find another way to take it, while absorbing the new exam fee and hefty travel costs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Twenty years ago, Dambrauskas looked out over the pitch at Old Trafford during one of his job interviews, dreaming that one day he would stand in one of the dugouts.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

My mind can dream about literally anything—and I end up dreaming about a worm.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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