stargazed

verb

past tense of stargaze
as in daydreamed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stargazed
  1. dreamed
  2. visualized
  3. fantasized
  4. envisioned
  5. fancied
  6. imagined
  7. featured
  8. hallucinated
Verb
  • The Dreamers have dreamed big, raised private capital and put together a stadium proposal.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
  • In March, as the criminal investigation dragged on and many wondered if Burke would ever face charges, Jane, the girl who frequently messaged with Burke before Rivas Hernandez, dreamt about him on his birthday.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of dreamed
Verb
  • Fraser’s sculptures at the Whitney realize, in three dimensions, the sacrifice that de Monteflores’s paintings had visualized decades earlier.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • And Russia’s true position – and with it Putin’s dilemma – can be visualized in a split screen of competing perspectives.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of visualized
Verb
  • There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid.
    — Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • The brand's return has been fantasized for years and ecstatically anticipated ever since Marc Jacobs Beauty was credited for the makeup in Jacobs's spring 2026 New York Fashion Week show.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 20 May 2026
Definition of fantasized
Verb
  • The country had not elected a Black president or even envisioned a Black first lady.
    — Robin Givhan, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
  • From the outset, Schoenbrun asked the designers to look to old moviemaking tricks for inspiration to make the landscapes at the Camp Miasma set as dreamy and immersive as the director envisioned.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of envisioned
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  • West Ham, Wolves and Burnley bring recent Premier League experience, while Middlesbrough, Southampton, Birmingham, Norwich and Sheffield United are all fancied ahead of Wrexham for promotion.
    — Dean Jones, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The region’s data centers are important not only to the US military and AI industries but also to the Gulf region, which fancied itself a third global AI hub, along with the United States and China.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of fancied
Verb
  • Nidhi imagined the baby crawling around in her mother’s body, desperately seeking the uterus, and, failing to find it in its proper place, quietly shrivelling up and dying.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
  • That sentiment inspires Sony Vizha – a celebration of Tamil culture, deeply rooted in emotion and imagined for a wider world.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of imagined
Verb
  • Featured as a success story Months before her recent UC Davis arrest, California featured the 20-year-old student as a success story – proof the program works.
    — Julie Watts August 20, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, other players like Gary Payton and Reggie Miller wore the Air Much Uptempo, which featured a near-identical design but used visible Air cushioning only in the heel.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of featured
Verb
  • Finally, validate all information is correct rather than hallucinated.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks recently studied websites at domain names whose URLs are frequently hallucinated by AI chatbots, discovering at some of these sites a range of malware and other malicious code.
    — David Berreby, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of hallucinated
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