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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 hallucinates
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
Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinates
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Why automakers are turning to drones Toyota’s drone proposal highlights a shift in how the automotive industry sees unmanned aerial systems.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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Despite these headwinds, and Elliott’s criticism about the brand being spread too thin, Krishnan sees room for new products under the Gatorade banner.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Hoover bounces back with a clean game, while Coach Prime contemplates making a quarterback change.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Oct. 2025
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The couple now keeps the tiny strands safe, even as Jessica contemplates one day turning them into a keepsake.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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In the first episode, Adeline shows Ed a comic book with graphic Holocaust imagery and imagines Ilse Koch, a Nazi, played by Krieps.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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In one of several sections of the show that seeks to capture the influence of Ed Gein on pop culture, Brennan imagines the Master of Suspense’s obsession with the moral boundaries crossed by the man who would inspire Norman Bates.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Song broke out with her 2023 drama Past Lives, which follows a woman from Seoul, South Korea, who ponders her relationship with a childhood friend in the decades after her family immigrates to Canada and marries an American man in New York City.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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The research team carefully ponders numerous different inputs for each type of complexity.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But Safdie has applied that signature aesthetic to a story of much grander scope, of an American misfit who dreams big.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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Hothead dreams neither of lesbian supremacy nor of assimilation but of a radical fluidity.—
Jo Livingstone,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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A little circular icon at the bottom of the screen tracks and visualizes your exact thumb motion with a red line to make memorizing tricks easier.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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Not that the down-to-earth stage royal visualizes her name spelled out in lights.—
Matthew Gurewitsch,
Air Mail,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Hallucinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinates. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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