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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
Indeed, at times Mickey only seems to get sicker, while dad too suffers some hallucinatory and purgative pains.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2025
While promoting his memoir My Next Breath on the Wednesday episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Renner shared how his use of pain killers during his recovery resulted in some interesting hallucinatory experiences — including an entire conversation and snowmobile ride with Jamie Foxx.
—Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 17 July 2025
As Almeyda makes her journey towards this elusive mecca, both the idea of Palmares and Almeyda’s journey toward it feel like hallucinatory visions: Vibrantly conjured, indeed mythic in intention and impact.
—Irenosen Okojie
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
In a peek at the future, David Kushner attends a backwoods retreat where patients with serious psychological issues get help from a powerful hallucinatory substance.
—Erin Berger, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2022
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2025
While promoting his memoir My Next Breath on the Wednesday episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Renner shared how his use of pain killers during his recovery resulted in some interesting hallucinatory experiences — including an entire conversation and snowmobile ride with Jamie Foxx.
—Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 17 July 2025
As Almeyda makes her journey towards this elusive mecca, both the idea of Palmares and Almeyda’s journey toward it feel like hallucinatory visions: Vibrantly conjured, indeed mythic in intention and impact.
—Irenosen Okojie
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
In a peek at the future, David Kushner attends a backwoods retreat where patients with serious psychological issues get help from a powerful hallucinatory substance.
—Erin Berger, Outside Online, 23 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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Her writing is surreal and inventive, always.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Earlier this week, Anderson made his womenswear debut at Dior, where footwear codes turned equally surreal — from oversized rosette mules to feather-like embellishments.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The new film tries to connect its phantasmagorical elements to regular middle-class lives, but the attempt serves both aspects poorly.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Yet these successes were at best partial, and perhaps illusory.—
JENNIFER KAVANAGH,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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Everyone has their own analogy to describe Labour’s illusory power.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
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While their mother is not in the picture, Judy seeks guidance from her boss, Alyson (Megan Mullally), and her imaginary friend, Alanis Morissette (voicing herself), who appears to her in the Northern Lights.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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The opportunities for newcomers to be in larger meetings may have been more imaginary than real.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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So many women who have gotten famous on Bravo did so by being mean, delusional, or mean and delusional, give or take a drinking problem.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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Like, our delusional friend Hope is so positive.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Garcia-Hernandez allegedly has convictions for giving fictitious information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated and fleeing police.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Supervisors Janet Nguyen and Don Wagner raised concerns at the board’s Tuesday meeting about fictitious registrations following recent news of a dog that was registered to vote in two recent state elections and a lawsuit by the federal government over noncitizen voter records.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
24 Sep. 2025
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The winning formula had viewers returning to the show's fictional Louisiana town long after Edward and Bella had their happily ever after.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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Does their fictional status matter?—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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