dream up
Britishverb
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As a child, I spent so many nights playing tricks on myself, twisting the shadows from trees outside my window into the most terrifying images my mind could dream up.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
You can see cool visual responses when asking for sports scores and other queries, and use the image generator Nano Banana and video maker Veo to remix your own media or dream up new visions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
But drawing players away from multiplayer behemoths like Fortnite and Call of Duty has proved, for others at least, to be a challenge more fiendish than even FromSoftware could dream up.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
Nava similarly turned to a series of 17th and 18th century Maya texts to dream up different kinds of symbolism that would lend the film a distinct kind of texture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Prolix, quartz, quandary, sylpb, rhythm, all the old tricks with consonants I could dream up or remember.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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