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hallucinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of hallucinate
as in sees
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 hallucinates In clinical environments bound by federal regulations and ethics guidelines, an LLM that hallucinates an endpoint or botches eligibility criteria does not just cause a minor hiccup. — Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 When a developer, for instance, instructs a coding agent to clone a popular new repository, the LLM hallucinates its correct location up to 85 percent of the time. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Back in season 1, episode 8, Neil Fak (Matty Matheson) hallucinates a conversation with The Bear’s Ballbreaker arcade game character. — Kirsten Acuna, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026 So what if the compass hallucinates half the time? — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026 Most notably, the line is crossed when AI hallucinates facts or strips away human voice. — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026 Colby scrambles through someone else’s bag like way back in season two, and someone hallucinates beef jerky. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 When used in legal cases, AI hallucinates between 17% adn 82% of the time, Kjoller’s petition suggested. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025 Also, the scene where Pi hallucinates blindness and a talking Richard Parker (in French, oddly) is terrific. — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinates
  1. sees
  2. imagines
  3. contemplates
  4. fantasizes
  5. visualizes
  6. dreams
Verb
  • Surely, The New York Times suggests in its review of the book, Green sees himself in Juniper’s need to be taken seriously as an adult.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Naish looks at that long curved snout and sees an ibis, one of the wading birds with a slender downcurved bill.
    — Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of sees
Verb
  • This film—which just made its Canadian debut at TIFF—imagines the Dostoevskys on their honeymoon.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The book imagines a dystopian American wasteland where pregnant women are surveilled and controlled.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of imagines
Verb
  • Neither yet contemplates an agent that delegates to another agent at four in the morning.
    — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The series contemplates topics like shady lending practices by financial institutions — something that will resonate deeply with today’s economy — and the ethics of placing oneself in a news story.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of contemplates
Verb
  • Denise has also been keeping secrets, chiefly about the manuscript for a novel she’s been banging out on a typewriter in the basement, one that happens to be about a woman who fantasizes about leaving her family behind for life in New York.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The busboy, Oscar, fantasizes about slathering honey over Kelce's bared chest as he is tied to a pole, leaving him to be eaten by a bear.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of fantasizes
Verb
  • The book visualizes these geometries through hundreds of scale drawings and illustrations, backed up by thorough research and real-world examples of how transport networks fit into urban design.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • The Explorer integrates and visualizes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other government agencies and local weather stations.
    — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026
Definition of visualizes
Verb
  • Even with Oracle founder Larry Ellison the primary backer of his son’s ParaBros dreams, the even older Ellison’s net worth, which has been declining of late, may not be able to handle the strain of months and months of such probes.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026
  • And ultimately, asked to prove themselves all over again to keep their often-fragile NFL dreams alive.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreams

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“Hallucinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinates. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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