fantasies
Example Sentences
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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
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
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
