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or phantasmagorical
as in hallucinatory
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Clune writes of adolescence with specificity—there’s the annoying younger kid who wants to sit with Nick on the bus, the windows on the bus that open exactly two inches, the hallucinatory anticipation of a blue-raspberry slushie at 7-Eleven.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025 -
Indeed, at times Mickey only seems to get sicker, while dad too suffers some hallucinatory and purgative pains.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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But coming up to it and seeing the smoke and seeing the fire department and the debris all over the road was just surreal.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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Music Box Films has picked up North American distribution rights to By Design, writer-director Amanda Kramer’s surreal body-swap comedy that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
20 Aug. 2025
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The two-state solution is dead, has been for some time prior to October 7th, and has been made all the more illusory in its aftermath.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 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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Now it's woke again for trying to wipe an imaginary farmer from its logo.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Americans love to keep an imaginary list of life milestones–buy a home, start a family, hit six figures, all complete with age expiration dates.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Aug. 2025
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The lobby and office also contain nods to Kingdom, the fictional company featured in VALORANT.—
Aman Kidwai,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
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The fictional season of Formula 1, heavily featuring Brad Pitt, is on course to break $600 million in ticket sales before the end of the week.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Rather than young school children, our heroes are octogenarians living in a rather upmarket retirement home (the fictitious Coopers Chase).—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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The association that Fuller makes with an entirely fictitious racial group—Indo-European for many racists both inside and outside the fascist movement, and more specifically Indo-German for some Nazis—only occurred later.—
Stewart Home
August 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Aug. 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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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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“Phantasmagoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phantasmagoric. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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