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Recent Examples of unreality The movie itself is something of a trip; everything feels coated in a faint, menacing sheen of unreality, as if a slasher movie were just a wild twist or two away. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 May 2025 But as with its aww-shucks hero, there’s more to it than meets the eye; something much stranger lurks behind the slight Twilight Zone unreality of its very movie-ish Midwest. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 As the novel progresses, this sense of unreality sharpens. Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025 All those books teaching parents how to take care of their children—the first year, the first eighteen months, the first five or ten years—none of them addresses this difficulty: for parents and for children, the border between reality and unreality is not always clearly marked. Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unreality
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Noun
  • Inspired by mirrors, which reflect reality while simultaneously generating illusion, the collection explored the tension between the two.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Her research examines people’s beliefs about what others think of them, including illusions and biases that can interfere with social connection, and interventions to improve people’s social lives.
    Maya Rossignac-Milon Erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And Eggar sang and danced alongside Rex Harrison in Doctor Dolittle (1967), the musical fantasy about a guy who can talk to the animals.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Good Fortune may be a comedy with a fantasy twist, but its watches give it weight and texture.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though her identity is not at first known to Benedict, the woman turns out to be Sophie Baek, a secretive maid with big dreams.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • With each brick laid at The Site, The Toy will document dad’s decades-long dream.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The series can feel like a collective daydream.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t let delusions (especially those planted by gaslighters) guide your thoughts and heart.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The documentary will trace Suzuki’s singular vision through rare archival material, interviews with Suzuki himself, his regular leading man Joe Shishido, and longtime production designer Takeo Kimura, alongside contemporary directors inspired by his work.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Unreality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreality. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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