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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 hallucinated
The underlying technology uses sixteen years of structured mapping, global returns data, and garment construction expertise to prevent system lag and hallucinated recommendations on high-traffic shopping days.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
But hallucinated references in real studies produced by humans could be just as widespread, and potentially even harder to track down.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
All 20 of those vendors showed some issue with accuracy or completeness in at least one of these simple tests, including nine that hallucinated patient information, 12 that recorded information incorrectly, and 17 that missed key details about discussed mental health issues.
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ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
That number is quite low, Topaz and others said, but more worrisome is the fact that hallucinated citations are becoming more common.
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Anil Oza,
STAT,
7 May 2026
Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.
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James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
The report was riddled with fake citations that appeared to be hallucinated by AI, which the White House attributed to formatting errors; HHS then corrected the report by removing the false citations and swapping in new references.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
Lessons From Regulated Industries In the healthcare and financial services sectors, hallucinated outputs are not inconvenient.
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Vivek Venkatesan,
Forbes.com,
6 Feb. 2026
The weather was accurate but the towns were hallucinated by the computer program.
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Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
25 Jan. 2026
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
But hallucinated references in real studies produced by humans could be just as widespread, and potentially even harder to track down.
—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
All 20 of those vendors showed some issue with accuracy or completeness in at least one of these simple tests, including nine that hallucinated patient information, 12 that recorded information incorrectly, and 17 that missed key details about discussed mental health issues.
—
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
That number is quite low, Topaz and others said, but more worrisome is the fact that hallucinated citations are becoming more common.
—
Anil Oza,
STAT,
7 May 2026
Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT.
—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
The report was riddled with fake citations that appeared to be hallucinated by AI, which the White House attributed to formatting errors; HHS then corrected the report by removing the false citations and swapping in new references.
—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
Lessons From Regulated Industries In the healthcare and financial services sectors, hallucinated outputs are not inconvenient.
—
Vivek Venkatesan,
Forbes.com,
6 Feb. 2026
The weather was accurate but the towns were hallucinated by the computer program.
—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
25 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinated
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Moving a blade back and forth to try to saw biscuits apart will make their layers stick (and ruin the rise).
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Ruggeri says that, in comparison to saw palmetto, which gets far more attention.
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Black Detroiters living in an economically depressed 1980s Detroit imagined a sonic future that was inclusive and equitable.
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Even in her wildest dreams, Jordyn Woods probably never imagined seeing her purse behind glass in a museum display case.
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Wimbledon has been a tournament that Djokovic has dreamt of his whole life.
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In Harmony Roundtree, a new generation gets the experience Jackson dreamed of—ghost sightings and all.
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The effect of Greenspan’s artistry was to alter permanently the way the capital markets function, and to extend the Fed’s influence more deeply into the economy than Congress ever contemplated – and certainly far beyond any Constitutional remit.
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Following the completion of her fifth season, Powell initially contemplated returning for a sixth year as a DCC — but ultimately decided to hang up her boots and retire.
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There was always a small part of him that fantasized about leaving it all behind and going to live off the grid.
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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.
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Last week began in a slump as investors pondered whether memory chip maker Micron would show sustained demand in its earnings report.
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Plunkett, with the Norman Rockwell Museum, pondered whether Americans viewing the painting today would find a familiar feeling.
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This can be visualized as a kind of barcode, with some narrow stripes and some thicker continuous stripes following one another.
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From now on, what historians once formulated as hypotheses can be tested, visualized, and sometimes even reassessed through AI.
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“Hallucinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinated. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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