dream
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He pledged to restore "hope and the right to dream" during a rally in the northern Amazonian state of Para on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Say goodbye, though, to Tesla, which will now inevitably disappear forever into SpaceX and Musk’s dream of a galactic mega-entity.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Here, we dream big. Sometimes we’ll fall short, but we’re always going to give it our all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Wales could dream of causing a major upset.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
I was awakened from that wonderful dream by a loud banging noise.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The first few songs sketch out the record’s themes, in which individual dreams are cheapened in a world that rewards artificiality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
So instead of letting my expensive tastes bankrupt my family, I’m planning the wedding of my dreams on a budget.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
But just as often, these turn out to be children’s fantasies — wide-eyed dreams of imaginary futures, tempered by real life.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
She still remembers the moment she finally found the courage to follow her stand-up dreams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
I want her to share her half-remembered dreams with me.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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In the morning, he would explain, “I dreamed the Japanese were coming at me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Many of the names who dreamed up these wonders are now etched in design history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Who wants to listen to this Beatles pastiche, dreamed up to get Tom Hanks’ film studio off the ground?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"It's something I've dreamed about for years and it used to be a bit of a pipe dream," said Tom Johnstone, when asked about the prospect of Wakefield Trinity winning a Super League Grand Final.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
No doubt they dreamed happy chicken dreams, of tasty feed and egg-filled nests, and perhaps the occasional dance step, too.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
“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
Growing up in her family's bakery, she had dreamt of one day running her own business.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Money itself is just a construct, one with rules dreamt up by humans.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
I drifted at last into uneasy sleep, and dreamt many evil dreams, and in one I saw a shadowy figure with no face creeping into our hut and bearing away the ten ollocks of rice.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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Then go back to looking at those beachfront condos with beautiful views and trendy historic lofts, all the while dreaming about your future adventures.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
This city of dreaming spires has lit the Promethean flame under poets and artists for centuries, but its latest architectural offering—20-yard rail and foot bridges connecting Oxford Station over Botley Road—has underwhelmed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
When you’re dreaming up a runway collection, do you have a specific cast of people in mind who influence the designs — real people, imagined characters or figures from your own life and imagination?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
You would forgive some in the Shed for dreaming big.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Was it possible I was dreaming all this?
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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