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as in illusion
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
were the voices real, or merely a hallucination?
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as in delusion
a false idea or belief
the common hallucination that gluttony during the holiday season doesn't have consequences
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Recent Examples of hallucination
This was always the nightmarish place where the hallucination of deporting 10 million people was going to lead.
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Antipsychotic medications can reduce hallucinations and delusions, while therapies and rehabilitations can address specific concerns, like teaching cognitive techniques or enhancing social skills to interact with others.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impair daily functioning and can be disabling.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
And while this didn’t necessarily mark the end of the league’s hit-or-miss booking strategy—turns out that 1997 Blues Brothers tribute featuring Jim Belushi and John Goodman wasn’t the product of a mass hallucination—the Wacko Jacko coup was a huge step forward for the NFL.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Antipsychotic medications can reduce hallucinations and delusions, while therapies and rehabilitations can address specific concerns, like teaching cognitive techniques or enhancing social skills to interact with others.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impair daily functioning and can be disabling.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
And while this didn’t necessarily mark the end of the league’s hit-or-miss booking strategy—turns out that 1997 Blues Brothers tribute featuring Jim Belushi and John Goodman wasn’t the product of a mass hallucination—the Wacko Jacko coup was a huge step forward for the NFL.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucination
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Neptune retrograde in Pisces, on the other hand, dissolves the fog of illusion, which also serves as an invitation to confront an emotional truth with clarity and compassion.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement But pretending that migration can or should be stopped is a dangerous illusion.—
Jonathan Portes,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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With the excitement and delusion of Humbert Humbert imposing a purple-prose narrative on his pedophilic assumptions, Hank speaks of his former student like a James Dean figure — beautiful, brooding and quietly intelligent.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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In Pisces, the taskmaster teaches us how to dream without delusion, and how to love without losing ourselves in the process.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI and Amazon announced Monday that the former will pay the latter $38 billion over seven years for computing capacity to fuel its AI dreams.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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The week, which had started with the dream of connection and romance, deteriorated into both of us going through the motions—and not all that well.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
3 Nov. 2025
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Foundation Rock also highlights her relationship with other protective deities, consistently linking her power to myths and the spiritual undertone of water.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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Pitting vengeful ghosts against a backdrop of a supernatural love story, the film charmingly plays with genre to question how history and myth can probe collective and socio-political grief.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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In pieces on patriotism as a kind of madness, on the long history of Polish and Russian colonizations and cultural appropriations of Ukraine, on the ways communities fantasize and share their daydreams, and others, Janion creates wormholes between past and present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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Weston Cloud Modular Sectional Sofa Sinking into cloud-like comfort is no longer a far-off daydream: The Weston Cloud Sofa's plush cushions provide a lavish experience ideal for relaxing after a long day.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
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The defence remains porous, error-prone and vulnerable on corners.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Times’ error immediately garnered write-ups in The Washington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and other outlets.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Much has been said about Bella's plain-Jane persona, but Stewart's earnest performance vivifies the character with a plucky yet lovesick duality that also grounds the film's lofty fantasy sequences.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Daily fantasy players can sign up with Sleeper promo code NEWSWEEKXL and lock in deposit bonuses.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Jennifer Smith Richards reports on why the rise of Christian nationalism in Oklahoma schools models the far-right’s vision for education in America.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Nov. 2025
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Earlier this year, the team decided to rebrand, choosing a name more in keeping with the brand's vision – and Fold was born.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Hallucination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucination. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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