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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
The most damaging by far is factual inconsistency, when an AI hallucinates and provides incorrect information.
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Jerry Haywood,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
So what if the compass hallucinates half the time?
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Caroline Rose Giuliani,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
Most notably, the line is crossed when AI hallucinates facts or strips away human voice.
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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.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2026
When used in legal cases, AI hallucinates between 17% adn 82% of the time, Kjoller’s petition suggested.
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Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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
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
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As Droga sees it, the advertising industry is very much in the throes of a profound technological shift.
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On average, the region sees its first 100-degree day on July 1.
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The agreement contemplates beginning the design phase of the new stations while the arbitration is ongoing.
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It’s been a long time since Steven Spielberg directed a film as quintessentially Spielbergian as Disclosure Day, which contemplates how humankind might react to proof that extraterrestrial life exists.
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Through Quasar Markets, Steven E Orr imagines a world where technology removes the mundane, reduces friction, and gives people more room to think, create, connect, and live with intention.
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Human creativity imagines what does not.
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Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
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The side marketed as soft increasingly fantasizes about confrontation, while the side marketed as hard seeks protection and paternal dominance.
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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.
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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.
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Sodais dreams about being a teacher one day and starting a family with Weeda.
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Every footballer dreams of competing at the elite level and for great clubs.
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In a couple of fleetingly brilliant moments, the director visualizes characters' discombobulation with aggressive blurring and dizzying superimpositions.
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In addition, the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW) visualizes exactly where Orion and the crew are using data collected by sensors on the craft and sent to the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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“Hallucinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinates. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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