Example Sentences
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Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
As La Cruz continues to break down barriers for the LGBTQ+ community in reggaeton, the rising Venezuelan star enjoys living out his gay fantasies in his music videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Like, if they’re experiencing an urge and are worried their fantasies are turning into plans, who can they call immediately?”
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
Petra has a talent for making fantasies seem real, a gift that results in actual conjurings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
And, at those times, Tristran Thorn's daydreams were strange, guilty fantasies, muddled and odd, of journeys through forests to rescue princesses from palaces, dreams of knights and trolls and mermaids.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
