as in saw
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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Recent Examples of hallucinated
Content must be authentic and showcase real expertise, not hallucinated knowledge.
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Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
One health-care AI model confidently hallucinated a nonexistent body part.
—Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Regardless, the guides require reading comprehension skills and don’t offer random, hallucinated, or uncited thoughts about the text.
—Joelle Renstrom
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Zane Wach, 14, hallucinated and walked off a cliff while climbing Mount Whitney in Northern California on June 10.
—Abigail Adams, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
For example, the o3 and o4 reasoning models that came out in April hallucinated more than their predecessors, TechCrunch reports.
—Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinated
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The trees were cut down, sawed in half, hollowed out and tied back together for the musicians to use.—
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Fanatics shared the moment Tennessee Titans first overall pick, quarterback Cam Ward, saw Brady pop up on the screen to give him some wise words.—
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Christopher Smith does this in a physical way, going from one dimension to another that’s as different from his own life as can possibly be imagined.—
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While Amon’s keynote address in Maui imagined a future with numerous AI agents working on-device, the current reality is more modest.—
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The Spanish driver secured the sticker for Sunday's race and ended up finishing on the podium, a feat that Sainz could only have dreamed about early in the season.—
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Her husband always dreamed of opening a sports center youth in Puerto Rico, so in 1976, spearheaded by Vera, the Ciudad Deportiva Roberto Clemente (Roberto Clemente Sports City) was established, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.—
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As Caproni has written several times, Flores signed a contract with the Dolphins that contemplated league arbitration.—
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Duncan even contemplated mounting a third-party challenge to Trump as a No Labels candidate last year before withdrawing his name from consideration.—
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Those who only fantasized about positive outcomes showed lower systolic blood pressure than those who visualized success and then thought through potential obstacles and backup plans.—
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According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers.—
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Four Ball State players pondered it prior to the 2022 season.—
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In her conversation with Interview, Peters pondered whether the next Great American Novelist could be trans.—
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Those who only fantasized about positive outcomes showed lower systolic blood pressure than those who visualized success and then thought through potential obstacles and backup plans.—
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Two batters later, Kiner-Falefa visualized redemption.—
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“Hallucinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinated. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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