as in to imagine
to form a mental picture of
all those lottery players fantasizing themselves as living in extravagant luxury
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Recent Examples of fantasize
Chat forums filled with would-be MAGA vigilantes who fantasize about rounding up Democratic politicians or acting as bounty hunters to corral undocumented migrants.
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Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Feb. 2025
Some fantasize about quitting their job and moving to a remote island.
—Mark Travers, Contributor, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2025
And because this is from the ’90s, there are entire extended dream sequences dedicated to Spader fantasizing about being in a circus.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Not far from the people fantasizing about being on the football field Thursday were some of the people who are actually going to be on the field Sunday.
—The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
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Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Feb. 2025
Some fantasize about quitting their job and moving to a remote island.
—Mark Travers, Contributor, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2025
And because this is from the ’90s, there are entire extended dream sequences dedicated to Spader fantasizing about being in a circus.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Not far from the people fantasizing about being on the football field Thursday were some of the people who are actually going to be on the field Sunday.
—The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fantasize
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Well, imagine a world in which the NFL plays an 18-game regular season.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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But imagine a world where just the opposite is possible.—
Juliet Weisfogel,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2025
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For Henshaw-Plath, the enduring lesson of Gamergate was that social media platforms as they were originally envisioned were only as good as the people using them.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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Take a look at how Omar Kelly envisions the first round of the 2025 NFL Mock Draft playing out.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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After Uncle Sam got on the motorcycle, as previously seen on every night of both residencies, there was an edit, and then a cut right to the skeletal avatar driving around a neon cartoon rendering of the streets of Las Vegas.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2025
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The rum-baba renaissance currently sweeping London sees this long-standing convention as a negotiable starting point.—
Hilary Armstrong,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
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One Piece, which premiered in 2023, follows the adventures of a boy named Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who dreams of becoming King of the Pirates.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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But, with some recent exceptions, these traditionalist Jews would not dream of using the language for literary fiction, which is a fundamentally modern and secular genre.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Fantasize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fantasize. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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