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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreamers
Noun
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But today there’s something refreshingly unusual about electronic music so unabashedly idealistic, something that declines to submit to reality and instead goes searching for some far-off nirvana, finding connections to other dreamers on the way.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026 -
Their journeys to the Olympics are more than anything immigrant stories, the odysseys of two families of dreamers who settled in the South Bay, Chloe Kim’s family in Torrance, Bea Kim’s on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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If the skeptics hadn’t outnumbered the optimists by many miles, there’s no way Rockefeller could have pieced together what became Standard Oil.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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This squad has already accomplished the impossible, turning Bears fans into optimists, and not just about this season, but also those to come.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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At least there were idealists who dreamed such fancies, and their dreams were the pretext for creating this nation.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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Some idealists set out to build a new community from scratch.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Japan romantics may be overlooking some clear drawbacks, however, including the 30 years of economic struggles that followed the bursting of a truly epic bubble in the 1990s.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Even for the biggest romantics, Valentine's Day can come with a lot of pressure and expectations.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
28 Jan. 2026
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The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Techno-utopians point out that, historically, advancements have led to the explosion of huge new business sectors and jobs.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Daydreamers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daydreamers. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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