dreamed-up
Example Sentences
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On a storage cabinet outside the barbershop, an interactive artwork lets visitors play a dreamed-up board game — “Flushing Polyphonous” — designed by Mamahuhu as a kind of Queens-centric version of Monopoly.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
Even today we still search for neural mechanisms that might relate to their dreamed-up ideas.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2022
Roderick says now it’s about “internal secession. Drive around the Valley today and you see a lot of blue ‘community’ signs’” designating mostly dreamed-up names for neighborhoods that want to break away from bigger neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021
We often praise science-fiction writers for their deft world-building, a term that suggests a capacity to imagine fully rendered elsewheres into being, places that feel so right we forget their dreamed-up origins.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017
If I ever get out of this lot...They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
