as in sees
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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Sírio-Libanês sees patients from all over the country and the region in South America – including those who typically cannot afford top-tier medical care.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025 -
In the final scene, Cate wakes up in her hospital bed and sees the dead nurses on the floor, as a result of her powers malfunctioning.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The couple now keeps the tiny strands safe, even as Jessica contemplates one day turning them into a keepsake.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Not everyone contemplates the cosmos, but star sign beliefs may lead us to choose our romantic partner or judge our existing partner’s motives and intentions, based on what their horoscope says.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Hopefully with a billion dollar box office haul between them, Ufotable imagines.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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The research team carefully ponders numerous different inputs for each type of complexity.—
Nathan Goldman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sorrentino’s script cleverly ponders the difference between the truth absorbed up close and the law, which is viewed from a distance.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2025
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This is the first CTC production helmed by its new artistic director, Rick Dildine, and his heart was surely in the right place in presenting the tale of a teenage boy who dreams of adventure and rises to the occasion when heroism is required.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
15 Sep. 2025
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Their follow up Strawberry Mansion, which Birney and Audley wrote, directed and produced, was a futuristic fantasy-romance centered on a man and the woman whose dreams he is tasked with auditing.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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A little circular icon at the bottom of the screen tracks and visualizes your exact thumb motion with a red line to make memorizing tricks easier.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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Not that the down-to-earth stage royal visualizes her name spelled out in lights.—
Matthew Gurewitsch,
Air Mail,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Hallucinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinates. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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