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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
Campaigns can be hallucinatory affairs, and this one was full of bizarre moments.
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Chris Megerian, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Indeed, at times Mickey only seems to get sicker, while dad too suffers some hallucinatory and purgative pains.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 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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Chris Megerian, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Indeed, at times Mickey only seems to get sicker, while dad too suffers some hallucinatory and purgative pains.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 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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Over the last few months, there’s been a surge of similar and even more surreal edits.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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This aerial perspective provides a surreal view of the otherworldly environment.—
Gwen Nicol,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2025
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Parker Finn's directorial debut not only lives up to the hype but also delivers a campy and absurd exploration of the transference of generational trauma — pulling off some impressive jump scares and one hell of a phantasmagorical ending.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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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
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Registration requirements today are largely illusory, with huge swaths of the non-citizen population exempt from registration and carry requirements.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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But even if that purported lunar companion proves illusory, this new method of tracking down mysterious sources of unexplained material around giant exoplanets could become a definitive pathway for future exomoon finds.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Scientific American,
13 Oct. 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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Voyager 1's approximate position lies half way along the imaginary line connecting these two stellar giants.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Not all the scares and frights and bumps in the night are imaginary on Halloween.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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But for a few unlucky people, chatbots powered by the technology have become a gaslighting, delusional menace.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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Her protagonist, known to have been derived from herself in a few other ways, blunders along and is charming but delusional, unlike Austen’s fiercely independent and witty Elizabeth Bennet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Of course, close animal encounters aren't always fictitious.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Half Moon Bay weigh-off began in 1974, when the California town barely edged out Circleville, Ohio, in an amiable contest for the fictitious title of pumpkin capital of the world.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
19 Oct. 2025
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First, and perhaps most obvious, the fictional thriller draws inspiration from the Manson Family's home invasion and murder of Sharon Tate and her friends, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski, as well as Steven Parent, who was visiting the home's caretaker.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Heart of the Ocean may be fictional, but its legend feels real—modeled loosely on the Hope Diamond.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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