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 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 The most damaging by far is factual inconsistency, when an AI hallucinates and provides incorrect information. — Jerry Haywood, Forbes.com, 1 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. contemplates
  3. imagines
  4. fantasizes
  5. ponders
  6. dreams
  7. visualizes
Verb
  • Analyst Divya Gangahar sees several positives ahead of the company's quarterly results in early August, including improving demand and accelerating growth.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 25 July 2026
  • Unlike standard hearing and vision tests, these assessments examine how the brain interprets what the child hears and sees and may help identify underlying weaknesses contributing to behaviors associated with ADHD or autism.
    — Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 25 July 2026
Definition of sees
Verb
  • As humanity contemplates the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, Sulej says the story of the Mastodonsaurus offers some hope.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • This week, Gracie Abrams pens a tearjerker on mother-daughter relationships, Steve Lacy escapes the abyss of a breakup on a colossal double track, and Beabadoobee contemplates risk and reward on a fuzzy new single.
    — Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
Definition of contemplates
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  • Much of the public conversation about wildfire still imagines forests as oversized campfires.
    — Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Using art to escape into a reality that imagines beauty where there is none is one of the most powerful statements art can make.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 July 2026
Definition of imagines
Verb
  • 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
  • In the weeks after learning about their Michelin status, Tina fantasizes about her new life as the Chef de cuisine with her husband beside her (played by the actor’s real-life husband David Zayas).
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 26 June 2026
Definition of fantasizes
Verb
  • Vieira ponders the dilemma from his own perspective as a coach, having had spells in charge at New York City, Nice, Crystal Palace, Strasbourg and Genoa.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • As coach John Hynes ponders his Game 1 starter, the recent numbers will show that Wallstedt has allowed a total of four goals in his final two regular-season starts, while veteran Filip Gustavsson has been touched for 10 in the same span.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of ponders
Verb
  • Training camp starts in two weeks, when the focus will shift to Caleb Williams and Super Bowl dreams.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • The director was also adamant in bringing a fresh concept to the classic story of the puppet who dreams of becoming a boy.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 June 2026
Definition of dreams
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

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