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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
His voice and guitar strums spark a hallucinatory sequence in which different times collide.
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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
The bond these women form becomes a strange, hallucinatory routine as Laura starts life anew after the car accident seems to have spared her, though violently, from an unfulfilling relationship with her boyfriend.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Bizarre happenings ensue: a tense break-in, a mysterious disappearance, many physical altercations, and a hallucinatory trip.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
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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
The bond these women form becomes a strange, hallucinatory routine as Laura starts life anew after the car accident seems to have spared her, though violently, from an unfulfilling relationship with her boyfriend.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
Bizarre happenings ensue: a tense break-in, a mysterious disappearance, many physical altercations, and a hallucinatory trip.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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The fallout was immediate, surreal, and more than a little revealing.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Naomi Watts broke out with a surreal leading turn in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Despite the book’s suggestive title, the landscape is anything but illusory for Abbott, who grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent the first 18 years of her life there.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Wells’s attempt to hold the two in balance relied on a division between art and politics, but that division is entirely illusory.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 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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The Royal Observatory Greenwich is home to Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian, an imaginary line of longitude, designated as 0 degrees that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The soundtrack shifts toward lighter indie rock and away from brain-numbing redundancies, while the story treats those imaginary genre sketches like an accidental off-ramp left in the rearview.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Further blurring fact from fiction is this latest approach of trying to capitalize on a TikTok viral moment by having a fictitious creator recite the words of a real creator.—
Shannon Bond,
NPR,
10 July 2025
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Senegal just ditched its plans for the singer’s multibillion-dollar smart city in the country, reminiscent of Marvel’s fictitious nation in its Black Panther franchise.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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In April 2025, Pascale Hutton, who plays Rosemary Coulter, shared a post on Instagram posing with her on-screen husband, Kavan Smith, who portrays Leland Coulter, and their fictional daughter, Marigold.—
Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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Again, these are fictional groups from a Netflix movie (albeit, of course, with real singers behind them).—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
5 July 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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Mayes seeks to dissolve both companies, citing violations of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act and deceptive practices targeting underage customers.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
9 July 2025
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The suit alleges excessive fees resulting in high annual percentage rates, deceptive tipping practices and misleading consumers about the voluntary nature of fees.—
AJ Dhaliwal,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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