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
Each is already deep in personal crisis: Esteban, who never got over his father abandoning him as a child, is hallucinating and suffering memory loss after decades of fighting; Andy is struggling to have a baby with his wife.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
Daryl has the unpleasant task of taking down two people who aren’t hallucinating: Angus and Fiona, the Scottish couple, who turn on Daryl to take the gas masks and save themselves.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Definitely for the best, as bat guano in the chunnel started everybody hallucinating.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 3 Nov. 2024
All models hallucinate—especially the leading frontier models trained on hundreds of billions of parameters.
—Clint Boulton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
Daryl has the unpleasant task of taking down two people who aren’t hallucinating: Angus and Fiona, the Scottish couple, who turn on Daryl to take the gas masks and save themselves.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
Definitely for the best, as bat guano in the chunnel started everybody hallucinating.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 3 Nov. 2024
All models hallucinate—especially the leading frontier models trained on hundreds of billions of parameters.
—Clint Boulton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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On December 5, the 29-year-old model was seen in a dressed down fall uniform that was, well, both in and out of my price range.Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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This legacy in racing has seen the team achieve strong successes, including their first win in 2000 with Robbie Buhl, and a history of fielding prominent drivers such as Al Unser Jr., Sarah Fisher, and Ryan Hunter-Reay.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Bills are 9-2, and Western New York is already daydreaming about another playoff run.Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Roma playmaker produced career-best form to lead Italy to a 3-0 win over Norway, allowing Spalletti to daydream a little about his future options.David Ferrini, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
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Hear 21-year-old Taylor Swift get 'overwhelmed' imagining life in her 30s in new audio from 60 Minutes in 2011 Champagne problems Friendship bracelets weren't the only tradition to pop up again on the Eras Tour.Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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Billionaire Elon Musk, who has the ear of the incoming president, imagines cost-cutting plans that are also seen as a threat.Arthur Allen, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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While REM sleep isn’t usually classified as a deep sleep stage, most people don’t wake up easily during the dreaming sleep stage.Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024
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On Saturday, these men and their nonprofits, along with eight other families and nonprofits featured in this year's program, will be helped by the community led by an Austin man who dreamed of creating a burger stand that would deliver a better-quality burger, fries and a shake to Austin.Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 9 Dec. 2024
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Rivalries and mutual suspicion mounted over the years and came to a head when Ghosn openly contemplated a merger, contributing to his downfall.Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
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In the summer after their first year studying architecture at the University of Hong Kong, Jeff Li and Joseph Wong were contemplating hats and climate change.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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The accompanying visual brings the passionate energy to life as a female stork clerk fantasizing about him while helping him.Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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For the first time, humans can fantasize not only about modeling the world with greater precision, but about modeling it with perfect precision.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
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That realism became quite vivid when the animation team began visualizing Gunn’s already evocative descriptions of the action sequences.Adam B. Vary, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
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Conjuring Up Possible Futures The first step in thinking slowly about the future is to visualize the ways things could play out.David Spiegelhalter, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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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 21 Dec. 2024.
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