Thesaurus results for HALLUCINATING

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 The anonymous teen’s mother, who did not release her daughter’s name for privacy reasons, told local outlet WMBF News that her daughter began hallucinating and her heart rate reached nearly 200 beats per minute. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 3 July 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 At a recent hearing on his disciplinary charges, the state presented evidence that Becker admitted to hallucinating while at work and to needing fluids prior to work shifts. — Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 6 Mar. 2026 Song was dehydrated and hallucinating, the witness said. — Emerson Clarridge updated March 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026 What if a person was hallucinating, and a voice told them to commit the crime? — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026 The Gemini integration naturally raises concerns about the chatbot hallucinating inaccurate information. — PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2025 This film took us on an unexpected journey through the hallucinating world of the rave dancers in the desert of Morocco, with the specificity of a journalist, and with all the sensual power of a filmmaker. — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025

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What to read next To have any realistic chance of seeing the northern lights during the eclipse, Earth would need to be in the grip of a severe geomagnetic storm.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
People who live in Palo Alto are probably used to seeing a driverless car quietly humming around on the street, but in middle America, many have never seen this kind of thing in practice.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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A lot of times, the job involves dreaming about the next possibility while also sometimes being met with the possibility that your best days are behind you.

— Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 31 July 2026
That means dreaming about Black liberation, not as an impossibility but as something that will come to fruition.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Definition of dreaming

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Many people spend years imagining exactly what retirement will look like.

— Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The film begins with the religious question of whether young Ilyas is allowed to shave the bristles on his upper lip, leading to a consistent self-consciousness, which appears (and re-appears) as Ilyas imagining extreme close-ups of hair and skin.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of imagining

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Despite this seemingly critical importance to the automaker at a time when its profit margins are evaporating, Tesla may be contemplating a future without China.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026
A number of sports media sites and fan blogs took that to mean the Kings were contemplating a buyout, generating stories about possible destinations and LaVine’s potential fit with other teams.

— Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of contemplating

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View gallery - 3 images People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 19 July 2026
In the hyper-online world of Heated Rivalry and Challengers, fantasizing about hot athletes being a little (or very) gay has never been more fun and communal.

— Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2026

Definition of fantasizing

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Lupoi isn’t a guy who spends his evenings pondering philosophy or splitting atoms.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Blumstein came up with the idea for the OnlyFans account while sitting in a meadow, waiting for marmots to appear and pondering the state of scientific funding for his work.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of pondering

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The moon is the new go-to destination in space, with NASA envisioning a stampede of robotic craft over the next several years to form the foundation for a sustainable lunar base.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Several of the roads were constructed with pedestrians in mind first, envisioning the fan march from the Landing to CPKC Stadium on match days.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026

Definition of envisioning

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