dream
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"When I arrived, I had a clear dream: to leave my name in this club's history," Romero added.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Simpson anticipates that it will be “surreal” to put on his game jersey and fulfill a dream of playing in the NFL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Only five months ago, Daniel Flores achieved a lifelong dream by opening a bike workshop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
No matter the strengths of AI, a chatbot cannot dream up stories with flawed characters and themes and arcs and failures and triumphs—with ambiguous finales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I didn’t wake up once during the night—I didn’t even dream.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
There he has dreams to create a community where elders who are hikers can live together in the montane longleaf pine ecosystem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
She dreams of becoming a district magistrate, a powerful field bureaucrat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"That day I felt that many of the dreams I had carried inside me for years were suddenly taken away."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"In a single second I practically lost everything -- my dreams, everything."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Maybe that would keep the bad dreams at bay.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Where Tumblr-ites dreamed of the cloistered quads and moody libraries of Princeton in the 2010s, TikTok-ers now obsess over the elaborate rituals of University of Alabama sororities.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Not long ago, Ram thought it had dreamed up the perfect engine for its pickups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
And I feel very lucky that I get to do the thing I’ve always dreamed of doing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It's so cool when it's something you've dreamed of doing since you were eight years old - and suddenly you're there," Shaw told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
I dreamed I was still on the sea, that I was still on the ship to France and that I was being sprayed by the salt water.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Money itself is just a construct, one with rules dreamt up by humans.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
"That was the moment I realised somebody had to do something," said the wildlife biologist, who never dreamt of a career revolving around the sea.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We made it to America. You dreamt about that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Abdi had long dreamt of moving to America.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
That night he dreamt of wildlings howling from the woods, advancing to the moan of warhoms and the roll of drums.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Still, they’re already dreaming of coming back to cycle down the Rhône from Switzerland to the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
They have been dreaming of a revolution which will remake Myanmar as a more democratic and inclusive country, and purge the armed forces from politics.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The residents may have plenty of complaints about being sent out to pasture when they’re still dreaming of the spotlight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
These findings suggest that dreaming is not a simple replay system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
She smiled and closed her eyes for a second like she was dreaming of bedtime.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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