reverie
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Watching the film is akin to trying to explain a night’s reverie to a friend, with specific details just out of reach and fading the faster you try to remember them.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Breuer has made this his rallying cry as he drives change in the armed forces and tries to jolt Germans from their post-Cold War, end-of-history reverie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.
From Slate • May 8, 2025
Startled from their reverie, flurries of native hens - which piyura kitina is named after - scatter over the mossy grass as we arrive.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me for ever, I shudder to reflect on it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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