as in illusion
an image that tricks a person's vision
Some may dismiss what we witnessed that night as an optical illusion, but we firmly believe it was a UFO.
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The bodycon look created a striking optical illusion with a green and blue floral print panel on the front that connected with a black fabric on its sides and back.
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Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024
Here Kottler references his gay identity with flat silhouettes, shadows and faceted reflections, dissolving physicality in optical illusions.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
In September 2022, creative director Matthieu Blazy sent a stream of leather optical illusions down the Fall-Winter runway.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 20 July 2024
The technique creates an optical illusion of jeans being stuck or glued to the wearer.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 19 July 2024
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Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024
Here Kottler references his gay identity with flat silhouettes, shadows and faceted reflections, dissolving physicality in optical illusions.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
In September 2022, creative director Matthieu Blazy sent a stream of leather optical illusions down the Fall-Winter runway.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 20 July 2024
The technique creates an optical illusion of jeans being stuck or glued to the wearer.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 19 July 2024
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Hex Vision meanwhile dematerialized along with the rest of the illusion Wanda had conjured.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Oct. 2024
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Her father was Harry Blackstone Jr., a magician and television performer who learned the art of illusion from his dad, The Great Blackstone.Lynette Rice, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
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The self-driving car is simultaneously a pipe dream and sort of, kind of the reality of many Americans.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
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The notion of a championship seems very far away, a pipe dream.Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 14 Sep. 2024
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And in 1862, John Henry Pepper, a British scientist and popular lecturer, refined a projection technique that could create apparitions onstage during live theater productions.Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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This female apparition mourns alongside the family of the recently deceased.Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Optical illusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optical%20illusion. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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