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dream

[dreem] / drim /




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It was the first time Wales had led New Zealand by 14 points and the home crowd began to dream.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

There was nothing in the dream bubbles to show that the critters were giants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

A multiple schoolboy and junior national champion, Francis said he had been training "non-stop" for the "dream" of representing England in his first World Championships.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

But for the first time, late on election night, I let myself dream a little.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

It was so still in our kitchen you could have heard a dream walking.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Sawyer knows it is the Louie of his dreams and tells his parents so as he waves to the loon and calls out his name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Tomar grew up the son of sugar-cane farmers in Shahbuddin Nagar, a village of about 1,000 people where childhood dreams look different from those in Western countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

For many football fans, an FA Cup win is the stuff of dreams.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

He had found himself in a kismet moment: on a tour bus with other creatives living out their dreams, all connected through a mutual friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The mattress was soft as a cloud, and the bed’s exhausted occupant slept so deeply and so well that no dreams dared disturb her.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

He dreamed of a giant loon named Louie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

But they dreamed of a historic win after tries from Josua Tuisova and Peceli Yato, and a Ben Volavola penalty, kept them firmly in the contest at the break.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

He dreamed of a giant beaver named Bucky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

She dreamed of an 850-seat performing arts theater and arts education center — but two years later, the theater fell on hard times during an economic recession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

But when he dreamed, it was of his father, searching for him with an angry and anguished face.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tilbrook: Paul sang it in a way that I could never have dreamt of singing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

She dreamt of a young, handsome man dressed all in white, with patent- leather shoes and a straw hat, walking across the desert bathed in sunlight.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The Literary Review described it as, external "a work of uncanny beauty, tender and terrifying in equal parts", while the Telegraph said, external "you feel you're not so much reading as dreaming".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Pursuing three doomed relationships, she hurtled from her 30s, still dreaming of a husband and child, to her early 50s, with severely constricted options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The former brilliantly evokes wistful teenage dreaming as a character walks through their high school, adorned by a yearning Caroline Polachek song and light-pink diary scribblings.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

These electrical signals change depending on whether the brain is awake, dreaming or experiencing deep sleep.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 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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