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  • verb Present participle of daydream.
  • noun An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie.

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  • noun absentminded dreaming while awake

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Examples

  • In all of this Supreme Court daydreaming, is any rightwinger going to say outright, “Everything we said about “judicial activism” was pure smokescreen”?

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010

  • Thinking/daydreaming is essential to my process and coming to understand and see this as a respectable part of the writing process this has enabled me to embrace it.

    Knowing Your Process – How « Write Anything 2010

  • A new study by University of British Columbia researchers, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that daydreaming is an extremely active, cognitively complex mental state:

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Now the daydreaming is back -- in career form (of sorts).

    Mulling 2007

  • Now the daydreaming is back -- in career form (of sorts).

    April 2007 2007

  • The most surprising Democrat to engage in this daydreaming is one who never dated Dean in the first place: Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic.

    September 2004 2004

  • Strive as I would, ever my fancy eluded my will and wantoned in daydreaming of the good things I had eaten and of the good things

    Chapter 19 1915

  • Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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