hallucinating

present participle of hallucinate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of hallucinating Family members told police Brown had been hallucinating and hearing voices, WCSH reported. Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025 The company’s tests show that GPT-5 exhibits a much lower risk of hallucinating inaccurate information compared with OpenAI’s early models. PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinating
Verb
  • His reaction to seeing his name on topping a list of creators who influence a billion dollar industry?
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Corr appeared to have knowledge of the victims daily routines and would make comments about ‘seeing them soon’.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Your ultimate glow-up will consist of you embracing your magic, dreaming bigger and not being afraid to take risks.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Photo of young thoughtful academic school boy touch cheek curiosity dreaming bored enjoy books sitting floor home background.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • American’s work builds on this legacy, but instead of imagining outer space, the artist zooms in on the very conditions that made Butler’s voice possible, which were the everyday sacrifices of her mother and grandmother.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike imagining a hand movement (which has clear neural pathways), programming involves abstract, symbolic reasoning.
    Somdip Dey, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even the upside-down notion of Fox News turning into a progressive network or other legacy Murdoch assets being transformed seemed to be scenarios worth contemplating.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s title carries particular significance for Yoon, who has been contemplating it for 15 years.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After learning her daughter will not return to Chile, however, she is forced to stop fantasizing about others’ lives and find comfort in unexpected places.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
  • For something completely different, some investors have been picking up value stocks rather than fantasizing about the possibilities of Silicon Valley’s dream world.
    John Navin, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In the eyes of many fans, discussions about musical quality have given way to conversations about who snitched; pondering an artist’s potential has been replaced by RICO speculation.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Also pondering shellfish, the German philosopher Carl du Prel insisted in 1885 that, in the wake of Darwin’s discoveries, people can no longer assume humans represent consciousness’s culmination in the Universe.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • However, the Ulrich plan largely predicted it right, envisioning a district that would absorb all of California’s northern state line with Oregon, stretching to Nevada.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, Cora is encouraging his young star to start envisioning returning in the ALCS.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Hallucinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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