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fantasy

[fan-tuh-see, -zee] / ˈfæn tə si, -zi /


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As with all celebrity-driven vehicles, how much you enjoy this fantasy rodeo depends on how much you like these two, individually or as a team.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2026

“The Disappearers” is an unexpected arrival from Mr. James, whose previous two novels were the first two entries in his “Dark Star Trilogy,” a wonderfully wild and mythic fantasy saga set in precolonial Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

In the fantasy series, Syrax is known for her striking yellow coloration, relatively small size compared with other dragons, and unusually high egg production.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

A quarter-century later, that fantasy is turning into reality inside a 40-foot-tall clean room at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory just outside the Washington, D.C.,

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

I have to let off some steam before homework, so I open up my self-insert fantasy novel that I’ve been working on since January.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Some of the songs of youth gone by are not so much memory pieces as “what if” fantasies of Mr. Louris, now age 71, about meeting Stephanie years earlier than he actually did.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Then, it was described as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia - excessive fantasies and hallucinations.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

As La Cruz continues to break down barriers for the LGBTQ+ community in reggaeton, the rising Venezuelan star enjoys living out his gay fantasies in his music videos.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

There are plenty of fantasies that feel-good television shows set in the Big Apple sell.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

“My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys’ fantasies.”

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

At first, real and fantasied crises led the "brothers and sisters" to make frantic telephone calls to the hospital therapists.

From Time Magazine Archive

So many prisoners were in the camps that it was widely fantasied among them that no free men were left outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

But as I travell'd hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied; Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams.

From King John by William Shakespeare

Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.

From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Even now there is fantasying here and there about seizing the Libyan oilfields or parachuting forces into Saudi Arabia, but no one really believes it could happen.

From Time Magazine Archive

I love the romanticism of Williamsburg, but perhaps we can revive the rugged American Dream without fantasying it into a never-never land impossible of realization.

From Time Magazine Archive

In passion—even in mere fire of the brain—one grasps not so much at the pen as at the string; and in that state alone does musical fantasying succeed better than poetic.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Not much more to him than speaking with a will; than fantasying on the flute in an animated strain.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle




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