fantasy
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He started creating maps, bringing to life imaginary worlds from his fantasy games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Allie’s most impressive feat is making it 12 hours in New York City in spike heels and a sequined micro-mini, but rom-coms are the stuff of fantasy anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The digital collage gives way to a more familiar cooking-show fantasy.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
An independent bookshop which specialises in horror, fantasy, folklore and the occult is trying to raise £20,000 to save it from closing.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And this was no fantasy, this was real, this was his near future, both desirable and unavoidable.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Conjuring fantasies is one of humanity’s most ancient arts — a sacred creative practice — but without earthly rooting, the symphony is incomplete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 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
“Like, if they’re experiencing an urge and are worried their fantasies are turning into plans, who can they call immediately?”
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
Each time she closed her eyes, her head filled with forebodings and fantasies of the morrow.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
At first, real and fantasied crises led the "brothers and sisters" to make frantic telephone calls to the hospital therapists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.
From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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
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
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
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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Literary Genres - Introductory
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