fantasize

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I've discovered very simply that it's easy to bypass the ethical boundaries of the job at hand when you're somewhat distant from the subjects in which you "fantasize."

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  • So if you're all hot to fantasize, go right ahead. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 04 - April 2007 (v1.0) [html]
  • When I was a kid, I would tell stories in my head before going to sleep at night—I've never been a person who could just nod off to sleep, so I always had to kill some time—and I used to fantasize, and a lot of women do, by the way. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
  • Some of them - James Waller comes to mind - have lived out tragedies Shakespeare couldn't fantasize, both during and after their incarceration, but still have enough faith in the system to come to Austin and confront the people who made the laws that falsely took their lives away because they believe telling their stories can make a difference. —  Grits for Breakfast
  • Also, BAC is apparently having a case of buyer's remorse re: MER (though often professes to fantasize, after a bunch of drinks, that it could "buy Countrywide over and over, multiple times a day"). —  Dealbreaker
  • Osama and the neocons might like to fantasize that al-Qaeda is a worldwide, coordinated threat to all we hold dear, but Friedman writes. —  Antiwar.com Original
 

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fantasize:   fantasized
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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