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reverie

[rev-uh-ree] / ˈrɛv ə ri /


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This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 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

Who were we, to interrupt this man’s reverie?

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2024

National defense and global prestige, of course, were the two concerns that had moved the reverie of space travel from the purview of novelists and eccentrics to the country’s number-one priority.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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