reverie
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Feig and screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine cleverly use this teenage-boy-daydream element to reel in male audiences who may be begrudgingly watching with their girlfriends, and Seyfried perfectly plays into the reverie.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
This moves the contact into the seldom used “X file,” where I can, in my moments of reverie, review and remind myself of those once treasured relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
He is likely to find this reverie equally fantastical.
From Slate • May 8, 2025
When Lennon presented McCartney with “Strawberry Fields Forever,” a woozy reverie loosely based on his childhood, McCartney wrote his own memory piece, “Penny Lane.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
It wasn’t hard to figure out the cause of her reverie.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
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