Thesaurus results for HALLUCINATE

hallucinate

verb

Definition of hallucinate

as in to see

to see or sense something or someone that is not really there; to have hallucinations The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.

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Recent Examples of hallucinate During the trial, Reddington argued his client was suffering from postpartum psychosis and hallucinating a voice telling her to kill herself and her children that day. — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026 Cox, unable to accept the death of his friend, had been hallucinating Ben’s spirit throughout the episode. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026 Wolff is direct about the fact that AI can hallucinate and requires constant oversight. — Ethan M. Stone, USA Today, 18 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 See All Example Sentences for hallucinate

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Verb

But the spring 2027 shows also saw a focus on more than those two accessories categories.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Expect to see rare bottles pulled from the shelves and all manner of weird and wonderful concoctions offered up from the menu and from their encyclopedic knowledge of drinks.

— Condé Nast, cntraveler.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of see

Verb

On November 1, season four of The Gilded Age will premiere, and all over again, audiences will daydream about residing in ornate Beaux-Arts mansions along Fifth Avenue.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
The one Hero Tree that Elrod can’t say too much about is the Dreaming Tree that Walt Disney used to daydream under as a boy growing up in his hometown of Marceline, Missouri.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 7 July 2026

Definition of daydream

Verb

James, along with Sawitskas and his pals, want the carousel to be restored to its original glory, a magnificent, gleaming merry-go-round that inspired Disney to dream.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Cyclovia is about people who have turned a simple machine into a way of surviving, celebrating and dreaming, and John’s whole body of work is about pulling Latin stories out of the margins and into the centre of the culture.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of dream

Verb

So imagine my surprise when the one innovation to stick — literally — turns out to be one marketed for men.

— Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
This imparts a drag on the star—imagine spinning around on your heels while holding an open trash bag; the bag will act like a parachute, slowing you.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of imagine

Verb

Massi is the first to leave, fantasizing about walking off with Joy; then Kat.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
There’s a major sequence in the film — some of which is in the trailer — where Lowen is pleasuring herself and fantasizing about having sex with Jeremy but then the fantasy switches to Verity, and Anne and Dakota kiss.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of fantasize

Verb

Todd has already contemplated what a sibling Grammy showdown might look like.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
Approximately 18% of all Latino high school students have seriously contemplated suicide and 42% of Latino youths reported constantly feeling sad or hopeless, recent congressional studies found.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of contemplate

Verb

The choices are housed in the Atelier Vivier MTO cabinet, a silver console containing the available materials and hardware, while a digital component allows clients to visualize combinations before production begins.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
The team’s aim was to visualize the mechanical pressure acting on the petals, similar to cutting carrots to reveal their internal pressure.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of visualize

Verb

Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.

— Andrew Mawson, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.

— Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020

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