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dreamer

[dree-mer] / ˈdri mər /


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With “Disclosure Day,” it’s clear that this unprecedented, Earth-shattering event brought oft-pondered questions about empathy and humanism back to the forefront for cinema’s great dreamer.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

"I've always been a dreamer, but I could never have imagined that an honor like this would come to a working-class English soccer player like me," he said.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Rothschild, who had already spent years financing agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine, regarded Herzl as an energetic but naive dreamer ignorant of the difficult realities on the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

That night the Mexican actor was nominated for his performance as immigrant dreamer Manny Torres in “Babylon,” a 1920s-set dramedy about Hollywood mythmaking and excess.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

My dad was never much of a dreamer.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

Some of the homeowners that list are also “dreamers, and we have a lot of dreamers right now,” he added, because they insist on selling at the price their neighbors sold at three years ago.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Director Sam Raimi’s original 1981 “The Evil Dead,” filmed in the Tennessee woods by a bunch of hyperactive dreamers, has since morphed into a monolithic franchise that mainly serves to keep the lights on.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

“RUM exists to build the future where that ingenuity wins, and to make sure it belongs to the dreamers and the doers,” said CEO Chris Pavlovski.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

That’s when I fell in love with those goatee and mullet-sporting risk-takers, the dreamers and pioneers whose fortunes seemed directly tied to the growth of the game.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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