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- verb Present participle of
daydream . - noun An instance of daydreaming; a
daydream orreverie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun absentminded dreaming while awake
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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
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Now the daydreaming is back -- in career form (of sorts).
Mulling 2007
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Now the daydreaming is back -- in career form (of sorts).
April 2007 2007
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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
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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
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Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.
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Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.
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Gyanendra was "daydreaming" - a surprising display of disrespect to the former monarch.
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