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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
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.
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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
But the sound and lighting effects get rather heavy-handed during Josh’s hallucinatory meltdowns.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
The fiscal fiasco was built on the hallucinatory claim that California enjoyed a $97.5 billion surplus.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
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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
But the sound and lighting effects get rather heavy-handed during Josh’s hallucinatory meltdowns.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
The fiscal fiasco was built on the hallucinatory claim that California enjoyed a $97.5 billion surplus.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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Mad Max is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is at once striking and surreal.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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There was a surreal end to the race, with Vingegaard and Pidcock unsure of where exactly the new finish line was.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In conclusion, several factors, starting from the extent of our exposure to horoscopes to illusory correlation, can play a role in your astrology beliefs, but those are not necessarily the same factors that influence the strength of your relationship, as the aforementioned study shows.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Auctions are built on an illusory symmetry of hope.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Steve Young lifts his arm, holding an imaginary football, preparing to throw.—
Seth Wickersham,
The Atlantic,
8 Sep. 2025
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Moreover, her five-letter titles refer to satellite navigation waypoints and fixes for aircraft flying in clouds or at night, that offer passage to imaginary locations defined by the interception of magnetic vectors drawn from the earth’s poles.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There are many efforts underway by AI scholars, research labs, and AI makers to devise AI so that the AI can do a better job at coping with human delusional thinking.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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There have also been growing concerns about users forming emotional attachments to ChatGPT, in some cases resulting in delusional episodes and alienation from family, as reports from The New York Times and CNN have indicated.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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As Newton soon learned, there is a long runway between playing a fictitious, Regency-era ladies’ man and becoming one of the most recognizable designers in pop culture.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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The film is set in New Mexico, in the fictitious title town—population of two thousand four hundred and thirty-five, according to a road sign—where the election year sees the mayor also up for reëlection.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, and Ciara, along with Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters stars EJAE, REI AMI and Audrey Nuna, who make up the fictional group Huntr/x will serve as presenters throughout the evening.—
Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Binge the autumn episodes or watch the whole thing again for the millionth time to enjoy a fictional fall getaway.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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