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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
The actors and filmmaker discuss wrapping William S. Burroughs' life into the hallucinatory dream sequence.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Watch on Deadline Set over seven hallucinatory days, Harvest tells the story of a rural village community with no name, in an undefined time and place, that begins to break at the seams after the arrival of four strangers.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
In the hallucinatory new scenes, the connection between Lee and Allerton goes to places the earthbound book could never take it.
—Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
My insomnia and the strange sky at dawn melded together to create a hallucinatory experience: the lights were moving, disappearing, ebbing, flowing.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Watch on Deadline Set over seven hallucinatory days, Harvest tells the story of a rural village community with no name, in an undefined time and place, that begins to break at the seams after the arrival of four strangers.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
In the hallucinatory new scenes, the connection between Lee and Allerton goes to places the earthbound book could never take it.
—Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
My insomnia and the strange sky at dawn melded together to create a hallucinatory experience: the lights were moving, disappearing, ebbing, flowing.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
Adjective
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Seal takes his namesake to new surreal heights in Mountain Dew‘s 2025 Super Bowl commercial.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Eric Kohn, Green detailed the surreal process of working at the apex of the advertising industry.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Chevron top pick If oil prices don’t budge, Trump’s desire to increase production could prove illusory, at least in the short- to medium term.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
18 Dec. 2024
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Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 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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Our mayor and City Council must stop pandering to developers by approving zoning laws based on fast, frequent, imaginary, future public transit.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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On top of that, Vancouver was right next door, and there was no imaginary border that made Richmond feel like an enclave.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, the text suggests that Saulos, his accomplice, engaged in the fictitious sale and manumission of slaves while forging documents to cover their tracks.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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The contractor, for example, operates under a fictitious name.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Ukraine is a fictional state...the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.—
Maya Mehrara,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Terms & Conditions, a kinetic blend of a fictional Afro-futurist narrative, archival research on decades of Black visual and multimedia work, and personal history.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
21 Nov. 2024
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The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Whenever Carolyn’s name has come up in passing as a possible Traitor, it has been immediately nixed, with folks unable to believe that the Survivor finalist could ever pull off being so deceptive.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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However, there’s also a darker side — beware of deceptive words or misleading information.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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