as in dream
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
Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
The rest of this season is now just a prelude to another coaching search and more daydreams about how great the future is going to be once the Bears finally figure out how to win.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
The Roma playmaker produced career-best form to lead Italy to a 3-0 win over Norway, allowing Spalletti to daydream a little about his future options.
—David Ferrini, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Noun
The series was often praised for its cutaway sequences tied to the daydreams of Braff’s character, J.D., with Braff also serving as the series’ narrator.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
The rest of this season is now just a prelude to another coaching search and more daydreams about how great the future is going to be once the Bears finally figure out how to win.
—Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Verb
The Bills are 9-2, and Western New York is already daydreaming about another playoff run.
—Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
The Roma playmaker produced career-best form to lead Italy to a 3-0 win over Norway, allowing Spalletti to daydream a little about his future options.
—David Ferrini, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Mercurial, vengeful and fixated on forming a safe space for Mormons, Brigham Young stops at nothing to see his dream realized.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
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Days after barely surviving a heart attack on an indoor pool deck in south Charlotte, Val Kovalenko was already fantasizing about a Hollywood-movie-style comeback.Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2025
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In the Rolling Stone interview, the Latin music superstar also admitted to occasionally fantasizing about taking his wrestling career full-time.Nathan Kamal, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Opening outside of the top 10 at the domestic weekend box office is the Robbie Williams fantasy music biopic Different Man, which opened in 1,291 theaters nationwide.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Backlist sales soared, especially with romance and fantasy authors like Colleen Hoover and Sarah J. Maas.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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Connor Brown — 82 This is the player Ken Holland envisioned when signing Brown to that big, bonus-laden deal in 2023.Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The latest blueprint for the project, presented to zoning commissioners Jan. 8, envisions 62.4 acres of half-acre lots on the eastern portion of the property and 24 acres of apartments to the west, bridged by a 41-acre plot of mixed-use development in between.Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
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With an incoming administration likely to stall or roll back green initiatives, now was the time to double down on renewable solutions, not to hedge bets on fossil fuel stopgaps that offer, at best, an illusion of progress.Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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There will be no room for illusions with the influence of taskmaster Saturn, so focus on your accountability.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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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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Kotb, 60, didn’t mention any handsome prospects, but Bush Hager voluntarily began visualizing an outfit for a very special someone.Michelle Lee, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Research shows that visualizing peak performance can help enable the real thing.Matt Fuchs, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025
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Watkins imagines a future database in which each parcel of land is inspected for fire-readiness, so that each neighborhood can be profiled for fire safety and insurers can price rates accordingly.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2025
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The spectacle here is one based on literalism: nothing need be imagined ever again.Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Daydream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydream. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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