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
Also, the scene where Pi hallucinates blindness and a talking Richard Parker (in French, oddly) is terrific.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Tiktok Benadryl Overdose Challenge Harms 13-year-old Last week, when her daughter began hallucinating, her mother noticed pills under her pillow.
—Alison Escalante, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The anonymous teen's mother, who did not release her daughter's name for privacy, told local outlet WMBF News that her daughter began hallucinating last week and her heart rate reached nearly 200 beats per minute.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
When Salesforce recently rolled out an AI agent on its website, the agent started to hallucinate and wasn’t giving consistent results.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Tiktok Benadryl Overdose Challenge Harms 13-year-old Last week, when her daughter began hallucinating, her mother noticed pills under her pillow.
—Alison Escalante, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The anonymous teen's mother, who did not release her daughter's name for privacy, told local outlet WMBF News that her daughter began hallucinating last week and her heart rate reached nearly 200 beats per minute.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
When Salesforce recently rolled out an AI agent on its website, the agent started to hallucinate and wasn’t giving consistent results.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinate
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Say the managers see a software provider on the block at a bargain price, and want to add it to a tech portfolio.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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Conversely, first responders wouldn’t be able to see what's going on inside the aircraft.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Anderson’s title lacks Pynchon’s pith but daydreams a culture of never-ending political obstruction and pandemonium.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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The voices behind Huntr/x — Ejae, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna — appear in the sketch when Thomas begins to daydream.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
5 Oct. 2025
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With unpredictable twists and emotions running high, this Halloween is especially chaotic, and Mutable signs — Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces — can't imagine what's in store.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the continental United States—used to be packed with oysters, more than anyone today might imagine.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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Kai, who has always dreamt of being a warrior against her society’s wishes, discovers a deadly secret about her mother’s past.—
Brittany Johnson,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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Miami will need to avoid repeating history to keep its College Football Playoff dreams alive.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Louise Hémon The jury would also like to acknowledge a director whose film transported us into an extreme landscape, and created an unsettling atmosphere that kept us contemplating the nature of lust, education, and violence.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Deacon clatters off in his truck, leaving me to contemplate my new home.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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As a girl, Smith had fantasized about being from a tribe of nomadic aliens or Native Americans.—
Amy Weiss-Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Even within the bowels of Amazon, a paragon of brutal efficiency, people flirt, fantasize, find camaraderie.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Clinics use tools such as 3D intraoral scanning and Digital Smile Design previews to visualize outcomes and calculate accurate pricing by tooth count and material type.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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By freezing and visualizing what happens in the developer, the team turned a long-unsolved, guesswork-heavy process into one that can be seen, understood, and controlled.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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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
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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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“Hallucinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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