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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
The fiscal fiasco was built on the hallucinatory claim that California enjoyed a $97.5 billion surplus.
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Adding hallucinatory horror and Jenna Elfman, the show continues our Golden Age of Airport Novel Adaptations (see also: Slow Horses, Reacher, Dept. Q).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
His voice and guitar strums spark a hallucinatory sequence in which different times collide.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Alcock has appeared in seven total episodes of House of the Dragon playing a young Rhaenyra Targaryen before being replaced by Emma D’Arcy as her older counterpart, reappearing only in a hallucinatory Daemon dream sequence.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Adding hallucinatory horror and Jenna Elfman, the show continues our Golden Age of Airport Novel Adaptations (see also: Slow Horses, Reacher, Dept. Q).
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
His voice and guitar strums spark a hallucinatory sequence in which different times collide.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Alcock has appeared in seven total episodes of House of the Dragon playing a young Rhaenyra Targaryen before being replaced by Emma D’Arcy as her older counterpart, reappearing only in a hallucinatory Daemon dream sequence.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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Evie’s hero’s journey begins, as so many do, with a problem that spurs her to action: she, along with every other renter in New York City, is being evicted to make way for vacation homes, in a surreal, class-stratifying upheaval reminiscent of the pandemic lockdowns.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
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Guests were surrounded by a surreal landscape of vanishing walls, floating furniture, and a creepy clown with a menacing smile.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The tariffs on Canada are illusory because most of the trade is still protected.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
11 July 2025
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Some may prove useful in the long run and others illusory, but for now they are statistically swamped by the sheer amount of renewable power coming online.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 July 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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Another transforms her into the enigmatic hostess of an imaginary cabaret, a nod to her Broadway performance in 2014.—
Elizabeth Grace Coyne,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Human rights, utopias, interracial love, ambition, war and betrayal are the ingredients of this film crafted with archival images and an imaginary diary shot on 16mm film that expresses all the modernity of Cabral’s vision of the world.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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The trailer is the latest installment in the film’s unique marketing campaign, which has featured seemingly authentic advertisements for the fictitious Rental Family Agency’s unique services.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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For security purposes, ministry members use pseudonyms, usually their first name and a fictitious last name, and all mail comes to the church address at 400 East Westminster in Lake Forest.—
Gina Grillo,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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Run every business decision by this fictional person, and make sure your team do it too.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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So he’s come up with a fresh approach that’s reminiscent of it but is different enough and works: the fictional true-crime documentary.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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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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These emails are loaded with deceptive links that lead to malware infections, and the consequences can be severe.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Match Group, the parent company of Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and PlentyOfFish, has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about deceptive advertising practices.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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