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a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
hoped that one day world peace would be a reality and not just a daydream
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Recent Examples of daydream
Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Wine & Travel France is an armchair traveler’s delight, inspiring daydreams as well as vacation plans.
—Laura Manske, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
The rookies were roommates during training camp and passed the time by daydreaming about their ambitions for the season.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The scene feels more like fantasy than reality, perhaps a daydream or hallucination conjured from one of Lois’s alcoholic hazes.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Wine & Travel France is an armchair traveler’s delight, inspiring daydreams as well as vacation plans.
—Laura Manske, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
As a result, their work focus was higher on exercise days than on days without a workout, and coworkers noticed less shirking behavior such as daydreaming or working slower than necessary.
—Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
The rookies were roommates during training camp and passed the time by daydreaming about their ambitions for the season.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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What if your dream job in aviation technology only has openings in their Miami office?Judy Lagrou, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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Luis Robert Jr is the dream, but who knows what the Sox are thinking.C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
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The accompanying visual brings the passionate energy to life as a female stork clerk fantasizing about him while helping him.Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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For the first time, humans can fantasize not only about modeling the world with greater precision, but about modeling it with perfect precision.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
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Today’s sentence helps ensure that Shouse’s fantasies won’t become another child’s nightmare for decades to come.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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On Netflix Lovely Runner This romantic time travel fantasy was one of the year’s biggest hits and a surprise hit at that.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ananda’s Take on the Future of Visual Search Ananda envisions a future in which AI gives people the tools to turn new ideas into reality by making visual search faster and more intuitive.Tom D’Agustino, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Instead, the duo envisioned diversifying their revenue streams by acquiring a complementary business.Lien De Pau, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Part of the show’s magic is that performers can literally be anybody or anything and the listener completes the illusion with their mind’s eye.Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The illusion of the regime's power was as important to Assad as Saydnaya prison, as the multiple branches of the intelligence services, military brigades and their brutal physical force.James Longman, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.Andrew Mawson, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
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That realism became quite vivid when the animation team began visualizing Gunn’s already evocative descriptions of the action sequences.Adam B. Vary, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
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Conjuring Up Possible Futures The first step in thinking slowly about the future is to visualize the ways things could play out.David Spiegelhalter, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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The Electric State imagines a world in which robots have rebelled, been punished, and sentenced to exile in the titular state.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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And yet, Beecher imagined a kitchen with work centers equipped with the latest technologies and innovations.Michelle Mastro, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Daydream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydream. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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