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 Is Jay hallucinating because of the toxic air and dwindling oxygen? — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 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

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The industry has been working to answer that question by comparing benchmarks, debating reasoning performance and seeing each new model outperform the last.

— Kumar Chivukula, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Investigators say witnesses had reported seeing a man fitting Harper's description near the crime scene, and Jarmon's car was later found close to where Harper had been staying in the days following the murder.

— Luke Jones, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of seeing

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Chaiken chuckled, retelling the story and imagining Kubrick himself groaning at the idea that Criterion had dug it up and restored it.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2026
Only during the last 12 or 13 months did the team really start imagining ways to bring the phrase to life.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of imagining

Verb

Now, under new ownership, organizers are contemplating future growth that could involve perhaps 20,000 participants, more visitors from outside North Carolina and a place among the country’s premier destination races.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2026
The novel begins with Percheron contemplating news of Field’s death, and proceeds to trace their youths, including their meeting, in 1807, when Field is humbled by Percheron’s virtuosity on the piano.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of contemplating

Verb

The accompanying music video, out now, finds Rodrigo cleaning up after a party at her boyfriend’s apartment (Ben Marshall) while fantasizing about meeting his family, which includes his mother, Nixon.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
Underneath that façade was a sociopathic white supremacist neo-Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.

— Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of fantasizing

Verb

Akalay also considers young people when envisioning his target audience.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
In early 1976, Sidney Gibson tried at least twice to make the balloon a centerpiece of a small summer fair, envisioning thousands of people coming to marvel at and ride in the balloon.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026

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