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Nevertheless, notice what Cornell’s research implies for those who fantasize about being in the stock market on these best days: You need to be heavily invested during bear markets.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The empathic distance that reality TV affords still allows us to not only delight in the Traitors’ impressive murder run but perhaps fantasize as to how well we’d perform in their place.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

I let myself fantasize about doing the same with my baby, about hearing the cries as soon as he or she emerged instead of eerie silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

I would often fantasize about lying on my deathbed with the love of my life, hand in hand, like Noah and Allie.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025

I wrote this on a piece of paper, dropped it into the prayer box, and began to fantasize about how they would arrive, in a package from Sears, Roebuck.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Walter Mitty is a term sometimes used to describe a person who fantasizes about a life more interesting and exciting than their own.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

The book takes place in the fictional hamlet of Swampshire, where Beatrice Steele lives with her family, fantasizes about solving crimes, and worries about what happens to women who step outside their societal spheres.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

On the last day of work for Bringley, who a decade later is still a young man, Joseph fantasizes about his own future in their shared language of art.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

As she slouches around Hudson with her terrier, Piñon, Greta fantasizes about the people she can identify from the tapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

She fantasizes that the next place she goes—because there’s always a next place, another foster home, a new school—she’ll start over with a new, easier-to-maintain look.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Duchamp’s seeming disinterest often revealed itself to be something far more venomous, as when he fantasized about a nihilistic readymade: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing board.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

At least that’s what one improbable image fantasized in a recent slew of AI-generated “wedding photos” circulating online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Ever since, Bamberger had fantasized about doing the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Mayer says he’s fantasized about a sitcom or a talk show taking up residence on the soundstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

He filled his stomach three times a day with the roasted meat that he and Park had fantasized about in Camp 14.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Pete Golding had spent nearly 20 years in college football, fantasizing about the day when he might become a head coach in the hallowed Southeastern Conference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

I spent a lot of time fantasizing about the brick-and-mortar bakery I’d open one day.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

But this wasn’t merely a spectacle of a man engaged in otherworldly fantasizing.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

Now, Robert Eggers, who gained auteur status with his 2015 colonial horror film “The Witch,” delivers a direct remake of Murnau’s film, apparently a project he’s been fantasizing about for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

I don’t bother fantasizing, because where did that get me last time?

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée