fantasy

Far from fulfilling a Heated Rivalry fantasy with male friends who “had her back,” she entered a dystopia of manosphere misogyny.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

New fantasy rom-com Wicker, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, has sparked a flood of viral memes and tongue-in-cheek jokes on social media ahead of its cinema release.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“If you’re trying to contrast reality versus fantasy, the reality has to be in its language, in its location,” Del Toro adds, emphasizing his resolve to make the movie in his native tongue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

It was while holding a similar job at Dover College that his resume moved into the realms of fantasy.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Alas, there was a difference between fantasy football and fantasy finance: When a fantasy football player drafts Peyton Manning to be on his team, he doesn’t create a second Peyton Manning.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

Lillian Karabaic shares some advice for dealing with these kinds of persistent fantasies.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

While Aang’s saga follows the trajectory of Western fantasies that revolve around a Chosen One, his stubborn insistence on nonviolence and befriending perceived enemies reflects Miyazaki’s reverence for empathy, innocence and life’s natural beauty.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

He’d walked past the room filled with all his lost movie fantasies for the last six months and had no idea.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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