hallucinating

verb

present participle of hallucinate
as in seeing
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 hallucinating In an August 2024 letter first reported by Semafor, editorial staff said OpenAI was hallucinating Atlantic stories and linking to aggregation of the publication’s reporting. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026 The near-miss is one of the more potent and consequential instances of a hallucinating AI ruining the reliability of a professional report. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026 During the trial, Reddington argued his client was suffering from postpartum psychosis and hallucinating a voice telling her to kill herself and her children that day. — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026 Cox, unable to accept the death of his friend, had been hallucinating Ben’s spirit throughout the episode. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026 Some judges were also already using AI chatbots, Mehmood says, but commercial offerings performed poorly on Pakistani legal queries, frequently hallucinating case law. — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2026 An enterprise agent hallucinating an action inside a system of record becomes a business risk. — Larry English, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Major problems arising from hallucinating AI coding software could snowball into catastrophe at many other firms as well. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026 Song was dehydrated and hallucinating, the witness said. — Emerson Clarridge updated March 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinating
  1. seeing
  2. dreaming
  3. imagining
  4. contemplating
  5. fantasizing
  6. envisioning
Verb
  • After seeing information about the National Day of Action online, Isabel Montano, a junior studying philosophy and economics, decided to take action at SIUE.
    — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Forecasting the Field While Kehlani is a strong contender for the category, the R&B space has absolutely expanded, while seeing the return of some of R&B’s original icons.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of seeing
Verb
  • Is an Indian dreaming about the same thing as a guy from Brazil or Nigeria or someone in Southeast Asia?
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Connington has spent years dreaming about a field where England’s best players have performed.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreaming
Verb
  • Under the concept True Dystopic, the #LINK Vertical program brings together auteur documentary and genre cinema, using real locations in Rio de Janeiro as settings for imagining speculative futures.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Maybe that difficulty in imagining the sport’s death, like imagining the end of capitalism, comes from living in the present.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of imagining
Verb
  • The offer came at a time when Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and many other public school districts in Florida, have closed or consolidated schools and are contemplating even more closures.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Players sitting on the fence contemplating whether or not to commit to LIV Golf's future will be allowed to sit a bit longer.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of contemplating
Verb
  • Massi is the first to leave, fantasizing about walking off with Joy; then Kat.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a major sequence in the film — some of which is in the trailer — where Lowen is pleasuring herself and fantasizing about having sex with Jeremy but then the fantasy switches to Verity, and Anne and Dakota kiss.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of fantasizing
Verb
  • The professor, who is based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first presented plans for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in 1988, envisioning a vast network of sensors in Antarctic ice that could capture neutrinos.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • In the long term, the startup is envisioning a global network of O-factories that would bring manufacturing closer to the major markets of fashion brands.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of envisioning

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“Hallucinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinating. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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