as in to see
to see or sense something or someone that is not really there; to have hallucinations
The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.
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Recent Examples of hallucinate
The brain, desperate for visual input, starts hallucinating lights and shapes that don’t exist.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Paranoid people shown a group of dots are prone to hallucinate one chasing another.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Another issue could be the AI system being error-prone or potentially hallucinating data driving decisions on major DOE cuts.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2025
He is hallucinated, by a woman under the effects of the drug Mandrax.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Paranoid people shown a group of dots are prone to hallucinate one chasing another.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Another issue could be the AI system being error-prone or potentially hallucinating data driving decisions on major DOE cuts.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2025
He is hallucinated, by a woman under the effects of the drug Mandrax.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinate
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Comments James Cameron has unveiled the first official footage from Avatar: Fire and Ash, though the general public may have to wait a little longer to see it.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Click here to see more photos of the Philadelphia home.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Apr. 2025
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Who hasn’t idly daydreamed about taking a flamethrower to their neighbor’s 15-foot-tall plastic skeleton in their yard?—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Who hasn’t daydreamed of quitting their jobs at one time or another?—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Well, imagine a world in which the NFL plays an 18-game regular season.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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The lesson was that, for integration to work in the way the Court had imagined with Brown, the whole system needed to be desegregated.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Another thing the judges noticed about the kids is that even at such a young age, some of the kids are dreaming bigger than ever before and are right on the heels of today’s current business leaders at such a young age.—
Megan duBois,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Once upon a time, Mack, a 6-foot-6 forward, had his own basketball dreams.—
Langston Wertz Jr.,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Apr. 2025
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To recognize the Fed’s insignificance, all readers need to do is contemplate all the attention given the central bank by economists and pundits.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Kashin Inc is not involved in any pending legal proceedings, and no such proceedings are known to be contemplated.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
28 Mar. 2025
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Some accounts fantasize that Trump’s college-age son, Barron, is running it.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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Concerned Mom in California Dear Mom: Mentally healthy adults do not spend their spare time fantasizing about extreme violence.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
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This training helped refine his ability to visualize precise actions.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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The Analyst agent can process raw data from multiple spreadsheets to forecast future revenues and expenditures, predict demand for new product and visualize customer purchasing behaviors.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.—
Andrew Mawson,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2024
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In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2020
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“Hallucinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinate. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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