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Recent Examples of hallucinatory
There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Barry's gently hallucinatory novel imagines Lennon making a visit in 1978, hoping to cleanse his spirit and revive his muse.
—The Week Us, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
To work, any adaptation of Herbert’s book has to capture the violence, moral ambiguity, and human drama of its far-future world without losing the spectacle or hallucinatory weirdness.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Barry's gently hallucinatory novel imagines Lennon making a visit in 1978, hoping to cleanse his spirit and revive his muse.
—The Week Us, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
To work, any adaptation of Herbert’s book has to capture the violence, moral ambiguity, and human drama of its far-future world without losing the spectacle or hallucinatory weirdness.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinatory
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KoKo’s Earth Control (1928) Imaginative, sassy, surreal and nonlinear characterize films from the Fleischer Studios, which battled the Walt Disney Co. for animation supremacy during the 1920s and ’30s, with their competing styles delighting audiences and leading to many technical advancements.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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Her images are often surreal and focused on symbolism within nature.Bakr Muhammad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Matt Angle, a Texas Democratic operative active in several congressional campaigns and other races dating back more than three decades, said much of the Republican gains in South Texas are illusory.John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Feb. 2024
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The Sun in your 1st House of the Self is shying away from illusory Neptune in your 7th House of Interdependence, which can create all sorts of confusion with the important people in your life.Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024
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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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Then, as the game clock ticked closer to zero, Young dribbled the clock out, blew in his hand and rolled imaginary die on the massive Knicks’ midcourse logo.Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The outdoor areas –in addition to providing the energetic kids room to run, play and even pedal tricycles around imaginary tracks — are essential parts of the learning experience and development of motor skills.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Now, roughly six months later, prosecutors in Ventura County are alleging Boyer attempted to register various fictitious felines to vote in the months preceding the November election.Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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In fact, others say Hollywood has become inhospitable to Israelis, even fictitious ones.Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Both my fictional White House staff and the viewing public recognized at the time that this was not President Bartlet’s finest hour.Martin Sheen, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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The fictional community is said to have a population of about 600 people, but just 120 chairs were purchased for the ceremony, according to Tony Devenyi, the show’s production designer.Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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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
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Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to numerous compounding sellers, and both companies have filed lawsuits against numerous compounding pharmacies, alleging trademark infringement and deceptive marketing.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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Yes, but: Brandi Tuck, executive director of the nonprofit Path Home, has been working with homeless families for nearly two decades and says those numbers are likely deceptive undercounts.Kale Williams, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Hallucinatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinatory. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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