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"\u2014 Flora Lewis"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Brazilians are fanatic about their coffee\u2014and sweet treat. \u2014 Leigh Mcmullan Abramson, Town & Country , 21 June 2014",
"Oh, come on, my Minnesota soccer- fanatic friends are thinking. \u2014 Joe Bissen, Twin Cities , 10 Mar. 2017",
"Ms. Clark told him she was not permitted to contact the families directly, but the history of fanatic violence did provide an unwelcome opportunity to declare her sorrow publicly. \u2014 Jim Dwyer, New York Times , 3 Jan. 2017",
"Up until now, the only real thing IKEA and Trader Joe's had in common was their equally fanatic , cult-like followings. \u2014 Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor , 6 Nov. 2015",
"And there is original Law and Order all over the box these days, including the old ones with Ben Stone, the fanatic Franciscan of the Manhattan DA's office. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 5 May 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Brazilians are fanatic about their coffee\u2014and sweet treat. \u2014 Leigh Mcmullan Abramson, Town & Country , 21 June 2014",
"Oh, come on, my Minnesota soccer- fanatic friends are thinking. \u2014 Joe Bissen, Twin Cities , 10 Mar. 2017",
"Ms. Clark told him she was not permitted to contact the families directly, but the history of fanatic violence did provide an unwelcome opportunity to declare her sorrow publicly. \u2014 Jim Dwyer, New York Times , 3 Jan. 2017",
"Up until now, the only real thing IKEA and Trader Joe's had in common was their equally fanatic , cult-like followings. \u2014 Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor , 6 Nov. 2015",
"And there is original Law and Order all over the box these days, including the old ones with Ben Stone, the fanatic Franciscan of the Manhattan DA's office. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 5 May 2017"
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"And among words in which c is immediately followed by ie are these dozen: ancient, concierge, conscience, fancier , financier, glacier, omniscient, science, society, species, sufficient and tendencies. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Sep. 2020",
"Neighboring Truckee, which is in a separate county, has one weekend behind it in offering dine-in service, though the fancier places remain closed. \u2014 Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com , 22 May 2020",
"Blue Apron is trying to stand out with newer offerings, like a plan centered on preparing multiple meals for the week in one day, and a premium plan with fancier ingredients. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 14 May 2020",
"For a fancier treat, try going the Italian way and make this quick affogato trifle recipe for dessert tonight. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 May 2020",
"This affordable wooden set is simple and elegant, and lets beginners focus on the board rather than the clever but impractical designs of fancier sets. \u2014 Popular Science , 31 Mar. 2020",
"There are fancier and pricier children\u2019s sun and camping shelters on the market, but this well-rated, reasonably priced, 50-UPF sunshade should do the trick in keeping bugs and the sun off your kid. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 20 Apr. 2020",
"Corgis have become best known as companions of their most famous fancier , the UK\u2019s Queen Elizabeth II. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com , 1 May 2020",
"But Pembrokes have become best known as companions of their most famous fancier , the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 May 2020"
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"\u2014 F. D. Roosevelt"
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"a fanciful tale of a monster in the woods"
],
": marked by or as if by fancy or whim":[
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]
},
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"a fanciful tale of a monster in the woods",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Another fanciful theory blames French monarch Charles V. American newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th century loved to trot out this hoary tale. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Dec. 2021",
"Gohar\u2019s work is fanciful with an edge; ornate but na\u00efve, and often aware of its own excess. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"The staging is inspired by Afrofuturism, the attempt to conceive new \u2014 often fanciful , sometimes celestial \u2014 circumstances for a people suffering under crushing oppression. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"But the dominant modes were scenes painted whole rather than fragmented, in either a version of straight realism or a more fanciful and illustrative modernist shorthand. \u2014 David Salle, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Experience the fanciful and repurposed assemblage art of Barbara Martin on view 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through May 23 at The Wembley Club, 8345 Woodberry Blvd. \u2014 cleveland , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Under the circumstances, such ideas can sound at once fanciful and pragmatic. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Parked in the driveway of founder Rebecca Hessel-Cohen\u2019s seaside home were not one but two beach-ready automobiles\u2014a vintage white Mercedes 280SL convertible and a pink Moke cruiser\u2014both overflowing with fanciful floral textiles. \u2014 Zachary Weiss, Vogue , 9 Aug. 2021",
"The whole thing is absurdly fanciful , a lark\u2014that name! \u2014 Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"crazy",
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"you could take a store-bought cake and fancify it so that it looks semi-homemade"
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fancy Verb think , conceive , imagine , fancy , realize , envisage , envision mean to form an idea of. think implies the entrance of an idea into one's mind with or without deliberate consideration or reflection. I just thought of a good joke conceive suggests the forming and bringing forth and usually developing of an idea, plan, or design. conceived of a new marketing approach imagine stresses a visualization. imagine you're at the beach fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires. fancied himself a super athlete realize stresses a grasping of the significance of what is conceived or imagined. realized the enormity of the task ahead envisage and envision imply a conceiving or imagining that is especially clear or detailed. envisaged a totally computerized operation envisioned a cure for the disease",
"Up in England, United aren't the only Manchester club who fancy De Jong, with Premier PINC +1.4% League champions Manchester City also admirers of the ex-Ajax promise. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"The key ingredient in every recipe, though, is always us: the people who fancy themselves the arbiters of what makes a dog a dog. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Although rival Barcelona is compiling some enviable players in central areas, and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid will stick around near the top, Real will fancy another league title if Tchouameni is available for selection when August comes. \u2014 Henry Flynn, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"In the same way that some true crime enthusiasts fancy themselves amateur, independent investigators, some are drawn in by watching someone else make an extreme choice, like going on the run with a criminal, Vicary said. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 7 May 2022",
"If Yungblud led a cult, many would join \u2014 even those who fancy themselves hard to persuade. \u2014 Maria Sherman, SPIN , 2 May 2022",
"Not even a dreamy-eyed middle-school kid would fancy such a thing. \u2014 Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 Nov. 2021",
"San Jose, however, is still looking for more from its third and fourth lines, and that has to change if the team wants to fancy itself as a playoff contender. \u2014 Ross Mckeon, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Optional chrome accent and black-out packages are available, as well as the Aerodynamic package for those who fancy and even sportier look. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The one that really caught our fancy was her class on chewy chapatis; aromatic beef, chicken, or vegetable curry; and ugali with steamed cabbage. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 May 2022",
"Peter Sellers couldn\u2019t have concocted a more deranged flight of fancy . \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"The Wildcat's interior is show-car fancy , with exotic-looking seats that would be appropriate in a Ferrari, maybe, but in a Buick SUV? \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"Choose one of our classic cocktails like our Mary Pickford or East Bayside for a fancy (but easy) drink sure to standout. \u2014 Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping , 13 May 2022",
"Whether smokescreen, negotiating tactic, genuine concern or flight of fancy , Mr. Musk\u2019s insistence that Twitter is overrun by spam bots has upended a deal that was eccentric from the outset and left both sides in difficult positions. \u2014 Cara Lombardo, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"The book is a parable so rich in flights, ahem, of fancy that it has been adapted over the decades into plays, musicals, movies, operas, graphic novels and games. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The zoo has 5 biomes: the desert, flights of fancy , the forests, the oceans and the plains. \u2014 Alexi Eastes, The Indianapolis Star , 8 Apr. 2022",
"And that brings us to the other place Vettel\u2019s flight of fancy and reality collide: the track itself. \u2014 Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 May 2022",
"But there were no fancy sports cars, no new hot tub, no lavish vacations. \u2014 Josh Rottenbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Porsche Design, a sub-brand of the German company known for fancy sports cars, was founded in 1974. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The coalition also created a new international task force to hunt down and freeze the assets\u2014including the yachts, jets, fancy cars, and luxury homes\u2014of Russian oligarchs in G-7 countries. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Science fiction has been the springboard for musical flights of fancy as long as TV and movies have been around. \u2014 Jon Burlingame, Variety , 2 June 2022",
"The Vampire\u2019s Masquerade Ball, while fancy and high end with its formal gothic dress code (no street clothes allowed), managed not to be stuffy. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 May 2022",
"Ankle-Strap Platforms From fancy dinner dates to a night out dancing, ankle-strap platforms are probably one of the most secure ways to wear this trend, with the strap working overtime for you. \u2014 Pema Bakshi, refinery29.com , 23 May 2022",
"Preparing to welcome her second child shortly, Taina Williams enjoyed her Mother\u2019s Day with a fancy dinner put on by her partner, rapper G Herbo. \u2014 Essence , 9 May 2022",
"Imperioli is set to play a character named Dominic Di Grasso, who travels to an unknown (although likely fancy and exotic) locale with his elderly father and recent college graduate son. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 16 Feb. 2022"
"Middle English fantasien, fantesien, fancyen \"to plan, devise, create, form (an idea), imagine (something false), desire,\" in part derivative of fantasie, fantsy, fansey fancy entry 2 , in part borrowed from Middle French fantasier \"to imagine, invent,\" verbal derivative of fantasie fantasy entry 1":"Verb",
"Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey \"the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination, preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking\" \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1":"Noun",
"from attributive use of fancy entry 2":"Adjective"
"an early hard-boiled detective novel featuring a whore who marries her fancy man and later murders him"
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"blemish",
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": to add superficial adornment to":[]
},
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"had fancied up his van so much that it was virtually a palace on wheels"
],
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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"bedizen",
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"in those days acting on stage was considered a profession fit only for a fancy woman"
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"first_known_use":{
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"hoochie",
"hussy",
"Jezebel",
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"noun"
]
},
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],
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"1652, in the meaning defined above":""
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"terrible",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The heavily swinging title track is a fantabulous example. \u2014 Morgan Enos, Billboard , 27 Apr. 2018",
"Take a look here: Things to puzzle over, things to ask about, things to spark fantabulous trains of fantastical thoughts. \u2014 Vanessa Infanzon, charlotteobserver , 10 Oct. 2017"
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"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
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"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The shooting rips the viewer out of this fantasia into the real world, or at least an approximation of it, and sets the tone for what this show will be. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Tilda Swinton is a lonely scholar traveling to Istanbul, and Idris Elba is the intriguingly coiffed genie who promises to grant her three wishes in a fantasia written and directed by Mr. Mad Max himself, George Miller. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 17 May 2022",
"The fa\u00e7ade is made of silky black granite trimmed with gold leaf; the entry is a gorgeous Art Deco fantasia , with enormous framed mirrors and elaborately detailed elevator doors. \u2014 Travel + Leisure , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Milwaukee Opera Theatre opened its production of Dave Malloy's fantasia (pun intended) Friday evening at the Woman's Club of Wisconsin. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Further aggression toward the Baltics, in particular, but also in other parts of Europe and Central Asia remain the concerns of those not lost to far-right fantasia . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 24 Feb. 2022",
"One top of being one of the all-time great 1970s New York movies, Bob Fosse\u2019s semi-autobiographical musical fantasia is a rare film that\u2019s about New York filmmaking in the \u201970s. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"With the fifth entry in the franchise, however, the series went Bond \u2014 becoming an international fantasia of increasingly fantastical set pieces, each one more ludicrous than the last. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 2 July 2021",
"Or write your own story in a fringy fantasia from Christopher Kane"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For Vogue, then led by the fantasist editor Diana Vreeland, Manzoni transformed models into otherworldly creatures, adorned by zebra stripes or glittering with rhinestones. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In that bruising character study pitting self-delusion against political idealism, Hurt and Ra\u00fal Juli\u00e1 played reluctant cellmates in a Brazilian prison, the former a gay fantasist , the latter a hardline leftist revolutionary. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Mar. 2022",
"The movie turns the poet\u2014a wild fantasist and a beguiler\u2014into a stick figure of goodness. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The vampire series, of course, would go on to become something less personal and more fantasist , as well as more intellectually vigorous, which is what occasioned my visit to New Orleans. \u2014 Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Millions voted for the autocrat-envious man in the carnival mirror, the fantasist and his enablers who through indifference and venality sent so many of them to hospital emergency rooms. \u2014 Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books , 25 Mar. 2021",
"Millions voted for the autocrat-envious man in the carnival mirror, the fantasist and his enablers who through indifference and venality sent so many of them to hospital emergency rooms. \u2014 Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books , 25 Mar. 2021",
"Citigroup said an enigmatic money manager who accused the bank of owing him $11.6 billion is a fantasist and a fraud. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Millions voted for the autocrat-envious man in the carnival mirror, the fantasist and his enablers who through indifference and venality sent so many of them to hospital emergency rooms. \u2014 Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books , 25 Mar. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One digital artist in Dubai, however, has used art and technology to let residents fantasize about a UAE with more green than the orange of sand dunes that residents are used to seeing. \u2014 Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Morant missed two dozen games with knee injuries but returned for the final game of the regular season, allowing for the frequent takeoffs that even those who spend much of their time in the air can only fantasize about. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The manic obsession with which various Russian officials fantasize about non-existent biological or chemical weapons or hazards in Ukraine is deeply troubling and may actually point at Russia preparing another horrific false flag operation. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Matafeo might fantasize about writing alarmingly honest notes to friends and ex-lovers in the U.K. before returning to New Zealand; Jessie composes the letters, licks the stamps, and posts them, sobbing all the while. \u2014 The New Yorker , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Most sports fans only fantasize about sitting in the front row or visiting the locker room after a game. \u2014 Spin Contributor, SPIN , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Most people fantasize about an endless summer, but for Porteous, permafrost is preferred. \u2014 Nick Remsen, Vogue , 11 Feb. 2022",
"All of this led one high-profile conservative columnist to publicly fantasize about Manchin joining the Republican Party, depriving Democrats of their control of the Senate and all but putting an end to President Joe Biden's legislative agenda. \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 9 June 2021",
"In races that are won and lost by a fraction of a second, athletes who fantasize about the perfect ratio between power and leanness usually find that the latter is easier to quantify and control. \u2014 Nora Caplan-bricker, Outside Online , 23 June 2017"
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"realist"
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"yet another short-lived utopian community that was the brainchild of a naive fantast",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Don't arraign the liars and fantasts who brought on the ruin that is the Iraq war. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 13 Mar. 2013"
],
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"The train runs at fantastic speeds.",
"a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"To have the opportunity to race for him at Stewart-Haas Racing has been fantastic . \u2014 Joseph Wolkin, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The entire cast is fantastic , but Christian Bale and Natalie Portman are phenomenal! \u2014 Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"Weirdly, if there's an overlap \u2014 which most of the time there is \u2014 then that's fantastic . \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"The producers over there on my season were fantastic . \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 20 June 2022",
"Street Fighter 6, which is fantastic , and Sonic Frontiers, which is weird but promising. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 19 June 2022",
"Their lineups with Murray and Porter in 2019-20 were fantastic . \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"That set-piece with Pataky fighting the other woman was fantastic also. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 16 June 2022",
"The game gets an average of 4.8 stars, plus the price point is fantastic . \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, guest pianist Linda Gentille and Assistant Cruise Director Richard Rubin\u2019s shows were over-the-top fantastic . \u2014 Debbi Kickham, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution. \u2014 Jamie Lang, Variety , 12 Feb. 2022",
"With more modern styling inside and out as well as the familiar fantastic -to-drive behavior, the reborn Golf GTI attracts new enthusiasts, continues to reward the faithful, and again makes our 10Best and Editors' Choice lists. \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Camille and Mindy want to go to this fantastic -sounding house party. \u2014 Jessica Goldstein, Vulture , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The galactic fantastic without human anguish: kid stuff. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"This installation gestures more toward the fantastic with a few hints of flight. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Neil Gaiman first became widely known for his marvelous Sandman graphic novels, each a tour de force of the shadowy fantastic . \u2014 Bill Tipper, WSJ , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Tripping the ground fantastic , Stumph Road: On April 4, police were dispatched to a Stumph Road location regarding a man who was injured after falling on city property. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 21 Apr. 2021"
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"a fantastic scheme for getting rich quick",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"To have the opportunity to race for him at Stewart-Haas Racing has been fantastic . \u2014 Joseph Wolkin, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"The entire cast is fantastic , but Christian Bale and Natalie Portman are phenomenal! \u2014 Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 June 2022",
"Weirdly, if there's an overlap \u2014 which most of the time there is \u2014 then that's fantastic . \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
"The producers over there on my season were fantastic . \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 20 June 2022",
"Street Fighter 6, which is fantastic , and Sonic Frontiers, which is weird but promising. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 19 June 2022",
"Their lineups with Murray and Porter in 2019-20 were fantastic . \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"That set-piece with Pataky fighting the other woman was fantastic also. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 16 June 2022",
"The game gets an average of 4.8 stars, plus the price point is fantastic . \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 13 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"However, guest pianist Linda Gentille and Assistant Cruise Director Richard Rubin\u2019s shows were over-the-top fantastic . \u2014 Debbi Kickham, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-COVID theatrical distribution. \u2014 Jamie Lang, Variety , 12 Feb. 2022",
"With more modern styling inside and out as well as the familiar fantastic -to-drive behavior, the reborn Golf GTI attracts new enthusiasts, continues to reward the faithful, and again makes our 10Best and Editors' Choice lists. \u2014 Car and Driver , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Camille and Mindy want to go to this fantastic -sounding house party. \u2014 Jessica Goldstein, Vulture , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The galactic fantastic without human anguish: kid stuff. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"This installation gestures more toward the fantastic with a few hints of flight. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Neil Gaiman first became widely known for his marvelous Sandman graphic novels, each a tour de force of the shadowy fantastic . \u2014 Bill Tipper, WSJ , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Tripping the ground fantastic , Stumph Road: On April 4, police were dispatched to a Stumph Road location regarding a man who was injured after falling on city property. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 21 Apr. 2021"
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"f\u0259n-"
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"foolish",
"insane",
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"a community production of the classic musical that featured fantastically bad singing",
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"India and Indonesia in particular are bank-friendly hotspots \u2013 in particular the fantastically Javanese Royal Surakarta Heritage Solo McGallery Collection Accor hotel available in July 2022 for an unbelievable $32 a night. \u2014 Duncan Madden, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"But shares of many other high profile companies that merged with SPACs, such as electric vehicle makers Nikola and Lordstown Motors and office rental company WeWork, have flopped fantastically since their debuts. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"After all, technology stocks were performing fantastically well right up until that bubble burst in 2000. \u2014 Erik Carter, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Left behind are cliffs up to 350 feet high, several crystal-clear lakes and a fantastically diverse ecosystem that supports dozens of rare plant species. \u2014 Robert O'harrow Jr., Washington Post , 3 June 2022",
"The result reads like a cracked fairy tale, both familiar and fantastically strange. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 9 May 2022",
"Many of the legions who dressed fantastically , scantily, or both treated the festival as, well, a festival\u2014a reason to carouse. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Anyway, Twitter can be a joy and a godsend \u2014 a fantastically useful tool. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 21 Apr. 2022",
"My preference: As the brand name suggests, Fits Light Runner socks ($17) suit a wide variety of feet fantastically well. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 24 May 2020"
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"1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"fan-\u02c8ta-sti-k(\u0259-)l\u0113",
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"Noun",
"His plans are pure fantasy .",
"He can hardly tell the difference between fantasy and reality.",
"His plans are just fantasies .",
"Her fantasy is to be a film star.",
"His plans are the product of pure fantasy .",
"I spent my summer reading fantasies .",
"Verb",
"She regularly fantasied the moment of celebration after winning the gold medal.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And while numerous dwelling classifications present the appeal of the unorthodox, is there anything more alluring than living out your very own Batman fantasy with a dash of southwestern style",
"That single unplanned action, just a moment in Joseph\u2019s life, instantly changes everything, and his fantasy of himself as a rugged survivalist comes crashing down. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
"It\u2019s Netflix\u2019s GeekedWeek, which means a lot of announcements about sci-fi, comic book and fantasy series, and uh, zombies, which is a mix of all of those. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"On Tuesday, a wealth of new sci-fi and fantasy trailers emerged for feature-length films expected to launch on streaming platforms by the end of this summer. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 7 June 2022",
"Increasingly, nuns are present in genres outside of comedy, horror and erotica; science fiction, fantasy , and action are capitalizing on the intrigue. \u2014 ELLE , 3 June 2022",
"Over the course of her career, Roberts has written more than 225 novels in various genres, including mystery, romance and fantasy . \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Much of the rest reflects Grinda\u2019s own style, suffused with humor and fantasy . \u2014 Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor , 1 June 2022",
"Standouts include playful satire, stories of weddings and romance, a dash of mystery and fantasy , and a look at America\u2019s summer pastime, baseball. \u2014 Becky Meloan, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"All of these accidents, some less happy than others, led to what is now Hollywood\u2019s biggest non- fantasy action series. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 22 June 2021",
"Martin's initial brilliance was to begin A Song of Ice and Fire as a kind of post- fantasy , where characters remember magic as a bygone possibility. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Divinity: Original Sin 2 Further Reading Ars Technica\u2019s best video games of 2017 If the two of you are already fantasy role-playing veterans, try Divinity: Original Sin 2. \u2014 Valentina Palladino And Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica , 7 Feb. 2020",
"Injury concerns will continue to haunt him, but Cook (and his handcuff) will be fantasy gold for those with an early pick in 2020 drafts. \u2014 Tony Holm, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2019",
"Allison was coming into his own during the 2018 season before suffering a season-ending injury, and now may find himself in position to be fantasy relevant again. \u2014 John Romero, The Denver Post , 3 Oct. 2019",
"In most fantasy league setups, pass-rushing 3-4 OLBs like Khalil Mack and Von Miller are hugely devalued compared with linebackers who play in the middle. \u2014 Ross Miles, Sports Illustrated , 21 June 2019",
"The rankings reflect overall fantasy value in a standard 12-team, point-per-reception (PPR) league. \u2014 Steve Gardner, USA TODAY , 2 Aug. 2019",
"There's also a third Ameobi brother somewhere posing the very real and definitely not fantasy notion of the world's first three-man fraternal management team. \u2014 SI.com , 19 July 2019"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 6":"Noun",
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"1984, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey \"the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination, preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking,\" borrowed from Anglo-French fantasie \"imagination as a faculty, figment of the imagination, dizziness,\" borrowed from Late Latin phantasia \"imagination as a faculty, mental image of something perceived physically, image evoked by a poet or orator, a thing imagined by someone sleeping or ill, delusion,\" going back to Latin, \"imagined situation or experience,\" borrowed from Greek phantas\u00eda \"appearance, presentation to consciousness (whether immediate or in memory), image, imagination as a faculty, imagery,\" noun derivative corresponding to phant\u00e1zein \"to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine,\" causative verb from phant\u00f3s \"visible,\" verbal adjective of pha\u00edn\u014d, pha\u00ednein (active voice) \"to bring to light, cause to appear,\" and pha\u00ednomai, pha\u00ednesthai (middle voice) \"to become visible, come to light, appear,\" going back to *phan-i\u032fe/o-, thematized from Indo-European *b h -n\u00e9-h 2 -/b h -n\u0325-h 2 - (whence also Armenian banam \"(I) open, reveal\"), nasal present from *b h eh 2 - \"shine, give light, appear,\" whence Sanskrit bh\u0101\u0301ti \"(it) shines, beams,\" Avestan fra-uu\u0101iti \"(it) beams forth\"; the verb is allied to nominal derivatives in -n-, as Germanic *b\u014dnjan- (whence Old English b\u014dn \"ornament,\" geb\u014dned \"ornamented,\" Middle Dutch boenen \"to scrub, polish\"), Old Irish b\u00e1n \"white, fair, bright,\" Tocharian B pe\u00f1iyo \"splendor,\" Sanskrit bh\u0101n\u00fa- \"light, beam, brilliance, appearance,\" Avestan b\u0101nu- \"beam of light\"":"Noun",
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"-z\u0113",
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"anti-utopia",
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"a lavish resort casino that transports its patrons to fantasyland \u2014at least for a few hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My favorite thing about even the most uneven Sonic games has been the memorable, weird environments, whether Sonic is in a surreal fantasyland or being chased down San Francisco-like hills. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022",
"Museum is transformed into a burlesque fantasyland created by top artists and performer from the region, featuring Zoltar the Fortune Teller, stilt walkers, fire eaters, and aerialists. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 13 June 2022",
"The carvings depict gnomes, dragons and other creatures, turning the park into a fantasyland . \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 13 Feb. 2022",
"On this Monday in February, they have been plucked from their grungy fantasyland and dropped into a rented film studio in South Brooklyn. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"For Rachel Negrete Thorson, living in a colorful fantasyland isn't childhood make-believe. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Maybe a few episodes of friends hurting friends\u2019 feelings over football stats will tackle them out of their fantasyland and back into reality. \u2014 Wayne And Wanda, Anchorage Daily News , 26 Dec. 2021",
"At present, the people spending our money are stuck in a fantasyland in which there are no costs, only benefits. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 10 Dec. 2021",
"With three locations around the city, The Moxy Hotel\u2019s The Pink Winter Lodge in Times Square, The East Village and Chelsea are straight out of a Mariah Carey meets pop-punk fantasyland . \u2014 Michelle Gross, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021"
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"1967, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"The band gets a lot of fan mail .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As a result, fan mail is being stamped \u2018return to sender\u2019 and is not delivered.... \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"The 36-acre campus is home to 10 galleries, the artist's beloved Stockbridge studio (which was moved here in 1886), and an impressive collection of 100,000-plus items that range from personal calendars to fan mail . \u2014 Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure , 8 May 2022",
"Some items, like a duffel bag of fan mail from 1966, deliver an immediate emotional impact. \u2014 New York Times , 5 May 2022",
"Raitt may soon be getting a fresh slew of fan mail from grateful listeners. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Owned by Allaire du Pont, a matriarch of the chemical clan, Kelso lived on Woodstock Farm, in Cecil County, where fan mail poured in from around the globe to an oversized mailbox that bore his name. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com , 4 Nov. 2021",
"In October 2008, the musician asked his fans to stop sending him fan mail or presenting him with objects to autograph via a strangely menacing video. \u2014 Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Besides bringing in the, um, bills, Munchkin\u2019s popularity has also led to news coverage, frequent fan mail featuring drawings of her pet, and requests for specific Munchkin scenes. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Aug. 2021",
"On Kemp\u2019s makeup table sit a single tube of Alpha Male Cosmetics concealer next to a short stack of fan mail . \u2014 Brennan Kilban, Allure , 27 July 2021"
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"She sent a fan letter to her favorite star.",
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"Hell, even Martin Scorsese wrote director Anurag Kashyap a fan letter , and that guy knows his movies. \u2014 K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
"Scholar Gregory Dorr uncovered a 1935 fan letter from Plecker to a Nazi official, praising him for tracking down and sterilizing children fathered by Black French troops stationed in Germany after World War I. \u2014 Erin Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Oct. 2021",
"To further share the bounty, Jones hatched a plan: Anyone who cares to may come into shop and write a fan letter to Parton for free, in exchange for a piece of the memorabilia. \u2014 Doug Maccash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 30 Jan. 2021",
"The missive was indeed audacious: not just a fan letter , of the kind that a world-renowned photographer like Soth might receive, but one that also sought to strike up an epistolary exchange. \u2014 Chris Wiley, The New Yorker , 13 Dec. 2020",
"With his mother\u2019s help, Zeki wrote what can only be called a fan letter to Adkesson. \u2014 Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2020",
"Franzese, who played Damian, said he was inspired to come out publicly as gay after receiving a fan letter around the time of the movie's 10th anniversary. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 4 Oct. 2020",
"Popularized by a teenage Judy Garland in 1938, it was written by James Monaco and Roger Edens as a fan letter song to movie idol Clark Gable. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Aug. 2020",
"In 1952, a Sheboygan 7-year-old named Ronnie Rabinovitz sent a fan letter , via his father, to Jackie Robinson. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Mar. 2020"
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"1932, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its main entry, located in the center of the five-bay fa\u00e7ade, was originally constructed with tall double doors that were topped by a fanlight . \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 6 Jan. 2022",
"The original openings remain, as does the fanlight . \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Three bays with glass doors topped by fanlights open to a long, brick-faced front entrance that was once an open loggia. \u2014 Julie Lasky, New York Times , 18 Mar. 2020"
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"She sent a fan letter to her favorite star.",
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"Hell, even Martin Scorsese wrote director Anurag Kashyap a fan letter , and that guy knows his movies. \u2014 K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG , 8 June 2022",
"Scholar Gregory Dorr uncovered a 1935 fan letter from Plecker to a Nazi official, praising him for tracking down and sterilizing children fathered by Black French troops stationed in Germany after World War I. \u2014 Erin Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Oct. 2021",
"To further share the bounty, Jones hatched a plan: Anyone who cares to may come into shop and write a fan letter to Parton for free, in exchange for a piece of the memorabilia. \u2014 Doug Maccash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 30 Jan. 2021",
"The missive was indeed audacious: not just a fan letter , of the kind that a world-renowned photographer like Soth might receive, but one that also sought to strike up an epistolary exchange. \u2014 Chris Wiley, The New Yorker , 13 Dec. 2020",
"With his mother\u2019s help, Zeki wrote what can only be called a fan letter to Adkesson. \u2014 Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com , 20 Oct. 2020",
"Franzese, who played Damian, said he was inspired to come out publicly as gay after receiving a fan letter around the time of the movie's 10th anniversary. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 4 Oct. 2020",
"Popularized by a teenage Judy Garland in 1938, it was written by James Monaco and Roger Edens as a fan letter song to movie idol Clark Gable. \u2014 Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Aug. 2020",
"In 1952, a Sheboygan 7-year-old named Ronnie Rabinovitz sent a fan letter , via his father, to Jackie Robinson. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 20 Mar. 2020"
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"type":[
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"first_known_use":{
"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
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"the fangs of a rattlesnake",
"a tiger baring its fangs",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What no one knows yet is just how sharp its fangs are. \u2014 Tim Stelloh, NBC News , 30 May 2020",
"Declines in consumption as sugar grew fangs in the public sphere. \u2014 USA Today , 13 May 2020",
"Molly After showing her fangs at her new law firm, Molly (Yvonne Orji) remains on top professionally. \u2014 Keyaira Boone, Essence , 11 Apr. 2020",
"But this week, as COVID-19 sank its fangs deeper into the region, declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization, the crowd at the restaurant shrunk to half the usual number. \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Nia is obsessed with vampire fiction, so AJ pretends to be a vampire, with Halloween fangs and fake blood. \u2014 Maria Russo, New York Times , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Commonly, this training involves introducing the dog to a rattlesnake without fangs or venom. \u2014 John Gordon, Outdoor Life , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Jolie plays Maleficent\u2019s struggle to connect both for laughs \u2014 yikes, those fangs ! \u2014 and pathos. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"At their wildest, the girls fuse into a wolf pack, donning fangs and snarling at the moon. \u2014 Amanda Hess, New York Times , 17 Dec. 2019"
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"Middle English, that which is taken, from Old English; akin to Old High German fang seizure, Old English f\u014dn to seize \u2014 more at pact":"Noun"
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"adjective"
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"definitions":{
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"1939, in the meaning defined above":""
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"In the new set of episodes, Diana has swapped the lavish fancy dress parties and aristocratic artistic pursuits that previously led to a tabloid feeding frenzy (and the Bright Young Things moniker) for something sinister. \u2014 Emma Fraser, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
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"To give his men something to look forward to, and a connection to the outside world, celebrations like Christmas were marked with exuberant parties and fancy dress . \u2014 Alex Lazarow, Forbes , 29 Dec. 2021",
"Ishmat thinks Fred wants a fancy dress but Fred longs to wear a powder-blue tuxedo. \u2014 Amy Amatangelo, Los Angeles Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"This is before Victorian times with tons of black crepe and fancy dress . \u2014 Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 16 Oct. 2021"
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"What no one knows yet is just how sharp its fangs are. \u2014 Tim Stelloh, NBC News , 30 May 2020",
"Declines in consumption as sugar grew fangs in the public sphere. \u2014 USA Today , 13 May 2020",
"Molly After showing her fangs at her new law firm, Molly (Yvonne Orji) remains on top professionally. \u2014 Keyaira Boone, Essence , 11 Apr. 2020",
"But this week, as COVID-19 sank its fangs deeper into the region, declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization, the crowd at the restaurant shrunk to half the usual number. \u2014 Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Nia is obsessed with vampire fiction, so AJ pretends to be a vampire, with Halloween fangs and fake blood. \u2014 Maria Russo, New York Times , 28 Feb. 2020",
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"Yellowstone franchise may be set in the U.S. during different time periods, but the drama\u2019s fandom spans far and wide beyond Montana's borders. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 2 July 2022",
"Now, Andersson has acknowledged Grohl\u2019s ABBA fandom by sharing on Tuesday (June 28), via the ABBA Voyage Instagram account, a short clip of himself playing \u2018Learn to Fly\u2019, from the Foos\u2019 third album, 1999\u2019s \u2018There Is Nothing Left to Lose\u2019. \u2014 Joe Goggins, Rolling Stone , 30 June 2022",
"Emily reiterates her Corbin fandom and Curry\u2019s toothy grin isn\u2019t so reluctant anymore. \u2014 Khari Nixon, SPIN , 30 June 2022",
"In fact, this LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the country community has allowed the independent artist, who has already made quite a name for himself on TikTok, to find a fandom for both his music and his viewpoint. \u2014 Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com , 30 June 2022",
"To me, Cucu represents the ability to look back on my child gordita self and feel nothing but love, familiarity, and unwavering fandom . \u2014 Virgie Tovar, refinery29.com , 23 June 2022",
"And of course, standing in the way is that same Ole Miss program that once captured Thompson\u2019s fandom all those years ago. \u2014 Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al , 17 June 2022",
"Manning's baseball fandom didn't work well for his alma mater last weekend. \u2014 Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star , 16 June 2022",
"And now, the singer\u2019s fandom is abuzz over a potential new clue. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 15 June 2022"
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"For fans of Latin jazz and socially stirring music of any kind, this fandango should be hard to match. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"In the play, a group of these immigrants gather at a community center for a fandango , which is a festive celebration where stories are brought to life through live performance, music and dance. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The festivities include a barbecue, hay rides, fandango dancing, a roping demonstration, music and both a live and silent auction. \u2014 Steven Wayne Yvaska, The Mercury News , 3 Sep. 2019",
"At the same time, musicians from Veracruz began accepting invitations to travel to California to hold fandango workshops, amid a new wave of interest in roots music among American listeners. \u2014 Robbie Whelan, WSJ , 8 Aug. 2018",
"To power this fandango , the company wants to lay a 188-mile natural gas pipeline under Cook Inlet. \u2014 Christopher Solomon, Outside Online , 11 June 2018",
"This fandango has been going on for six freaking years. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 25 Aug. 2017",
"In the frenzied world of college basketball, a sport teeming with rabid tantrum throwers, for foot-stomping, fandango -dancing pyrotechnics, no coach was quite as entertaining as the man the players called Daddy Mass. \u2014 Bill Lyon, Philly.com , 30 Aug. 2017"
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"Stuffed into his back pocket underneath his fanny pack , Michael DeFazio, 32, had an important part of his Indy 500 outfit saved for later: a headkerchief with a mullet attached. \u2014 The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022",
"Like a purse, backpack or tote, a fanny pack counts as a personal item when flying. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"The fanny pack -style bag is made with water-resistant recycled nylon and can be worn on hikes, sightseeing adventures, theme park trips, and the other exciting activities on your itinerary. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Believe it or not, passengers left behind 500 grams of caviar, a bucket of slime, Bernie Sanders fanny pack , 40 chicken nuggets, a pet tortoise, and an urn with a family member's ashes. \u2014 Emmy Abbassi, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"It can be easily tossed in your carry-on, purse, beach bag, fanny pack , or backpack to add comfort to all kinds of warm-weather occasions, from amusement park trips to concerts and sports games. \u2014 Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure , 9 June 2022",
"It\u2019s like a new version of a fanny pack for your upper body. \u2014 Scott Kramer, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"The Joey apron is inspired by traditional harvest bags, with a large pouch that flops open at the bottom for easy depositing of, say, apples, but reimagined as a sort of enormous open-top fanny pack with a waterproof liner on the inner side. \u2014 Blair Braverman, Outside Online , 12 July 2020",
"Indeed there is merit to a hands-free bag like a crossbody silhouette or fanny pack . \u2014 Nicole Kliest, Vogue , 1 May 2022"
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"Its main character, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Pakistani-American teenager living in Jersey City with her parents Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) and Yusuf (Mohan Kapur) and brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh), is an unabashed Avengers fangirl . \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 7 June 2022",
"She\u2019s an artist, a gamer, a fan-fiction writer and, above all, an Avengers fangirl . \u2014 Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter , 3 June 2022",
"While expertly dodging a question about the band\u2019s dating life, RM \u2014 the unfortunate soul sitting closest to the scare box \u2014 got spooked by an employee dressed as a BTS fangirl . \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"She\u2019s the dembow ambassador whose star power has been expanding like the universe, who\u2019s made Bad Bunny fangirl at award shows, who\u2019s selling out venues with no album out. \u2014 Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone , 20 May 2022",
"When, in 2019, the Spice Girls (minus Beckham) reunited for a tour, Adele \u2014 the fangirl whose childhood wall was once plastered with Spice Girls posters \u2014 visited them on the day of their final performance, at Wembley Stadium. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"And just as any good fangirl would do, Rodrigo proceeded to encourage her followers to check out Fear of the Dawn, White\u2019s latest album, which came out in early April. \u2014 Hannah Dailey, Billboard , 11 May 2022",
"Watch Cabello fangirl over Abrams, Bridgers and Swift below. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 6 Apr. 2022"
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"Tosca Musk, Elon\u2019s younger sister, is the force behind Passionflix, a streaming service dedicated to adaptations of romance novels and erotic fan fiction . \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Once a fan fiction scenario gains enough momentum to achieve escape velocity, it is elevated into mainstream tabloids, which are rife with reports of Depp\u2019s courtroom flirtations and epic witness-stand one-liners. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"The impact of the fan fiction left, irrespective of intention, is to dampen voter enthusiasm for the Democratic Party. \u2014 David Masciotra, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"But The Book of Boba Fett fleshes out a character that many Star Wars fans have mythologized, theorized, and fan fiction -ized for decades and decades. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 4 May 2022",
"Beloved characters like Tracer, D.Va and Widowmaker inspired an ever-deepening deluge of cosplay, fan art and fan fiction . \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"Thus far our national security journalists have gotten some great stories, even if their breathless copy sometimes reads as fan fiction . \u2014 James Harkin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022"
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"At 11 and \u00be, Gru is still but a fanboy of the Vicious 6, a group of supervillains in search of some kind of world-altering amulet \u2014 and also a new sixth member after kicking the aging Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin) to the curb. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 1 July 2022",
"Basically, the premise is that near-12-year-old Gru (voiced by Steve Carell, again) is a budding supervillain fanboy , who yearns for an opportunity to join a sinister group known as the Vicious Six. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 30 June 2022",
"Speaking of inspiring people, one of my favorite scenes is seeing Eminem become a total fanboy for you. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 10 June 2022",
"For him and many of the people on his team, working with Englund was a fanboy fantasy come to life. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"The fanboy mindset is exploited by the series producer, Ava DuVernay, to transform film culture into layman consensus. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Last month, Jared Leto, Hollywood\u2019s mightiest Gucci fanboy (and paid ambassador of the brand), wore the label\u2019s sheer shirt to a media event in Los Angeles. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"Not to mention, after Gordon\u2019s first wife divorced him and moved back to Chicago with their son, that son would grow into a kind of Joker fanboy and one of his father\u2019s worst foes. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Compounding the potential political problems for Biden was the immediate reaction to the Ukrainian crisis from Putin\u2019s leading American fanboy . \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022"
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"There\u2019s something about it that feels like a fanzine . \u2014 Craig Jenkins, Vulture , 22 Apr. 2021",
"My idea was to edit a sort of magazine, like a special issue of some crazy fanzine , conveying MSGM\u2019s identity in a very direct, honest, unpretentious way. \u2014 Tiziana Cardini, Vogue , 3 Dec. 2020",
"In The Grave for K Records, and the wildly experimental Stereopathetic Soulmanure on the label run by legendary Los Angeles punk fanzine Flipside. \u2014 Ron Hart, Billboard , 4 Mar. 2019",
"In an early 1990s fanzine , Despentes came across a story by the experimental feminist writer Kathy Acker, and the accompanying photo\u2014short hair, red lips, hard stare\u2014stopped her cold. \u2014 Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Some people visit just to page through the fanzines . \u2014 John Kelly, Washington Post , 20 Aug. 2019",
"So Daniel Johnston's cassettes started getting talked about in the fanzines . \u2014 Chris Eggertsen, Billboard , 11 Sep. 2019",
"Lisa Prank, co-edited a fanzine called Summer of Sheryl, which situated Crow in a punk-rock context. \u2014 Jenn Pelly, Los Angeles Times , 21 Aug. 2019"
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