fantasy
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Stewart, to fulfill her Halloween homeless fantasy, donned a damaged knit cardigan, torn patchwork jeans and an oversize flannel button-down, according to screenshots of her deleted post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Nobody cares about anyone else’s miserable fantasy football team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
I had this fantasy as a kid that started with me giving an impressive performance on “Wheel of Fortune.”
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Eisenkot has dismissed regime change as a fantasy and has said he’d prefer to sway Tehran’s behavior—away from supporting terrorist groups and developing nuclear weapons—through economic pressure.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
In my fantasy I was the first wife but I knew there was no guarantee of that; I might be hidden anywhere in the long chain of wives.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Like most made-for-TV illustrations, these fantasies didn’t reflect life for most people, and certainly not working-class families with two working parents.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
In it he argued that all Western literature and art about the Islamic world is tainted by imperial power and its projected fantasies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Then, it was described as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia - excessive fantasies and hallucinations.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lillian Karabaic shares some advice for dealing with these kinds of persistent fantasies.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
There were adventure stories and mysteries and love stories and fantasies.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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
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
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
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
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
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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