as in to see
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 hallucinate
Attackers could seize on the pattern by identifying nonexistent packages that are repeatedly hallucinated.
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
That was long after one of the strangest starts to a game that could be imagined or concocted or hallucinated.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
That’s a lesson two California law firms learned this week when they were hit with $31,000 in sanctions for filing legal briefs citing non-existent cases that had been hallucinated by an LLM.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
OpenAI’s newest reasoning model, o3, released in April, seems to hallucinate more than twice as often as o1, according to the model card.
—Hayden Field,jonathan Vanian,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 14 May 2025
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Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
That was long after one of the strangest starts to a game that could be imagined or concocted or hallucinated.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
That’s a lesson two California law firms learned this week when they were hit with $31,000 in sanctions for filing legal briefs citing non-existent cases that had been hallucinated by an LLM.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
OpenAI’s newest reasoning model, o3, released in April, seems to hallucinate more than twice as often as o1, according to the model card.
—Hayden Field,jonathan Vanian,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallucinate
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The strength in sports reflected the wider rebound seen in the broader markets, which saw action in the month dominated by knee-jerk reactions to Trump tariff announcements followed by sharp rebound days due what investors began calling the TACO trade.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
2 June 2025
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Patchy Mix Betting Odds and Line Movement With Mix being somewhat of an unknown to many fight fans who spend most of their time focusing on the UFC, the opening odds for this contest saw Mix and Bautista both listed at -110.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Others would be daydreaming or watching a train pass by.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Others will spend time daydreaming or being lost in a fantasy world.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
28 May 2025
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Set more than a decade after Jane’s untimely death, this bit of historical fiction follows her beloved older (and only) sister, Cassandra, sensitively portrayed by executive producer Keeley Hawes, and imagines the circumstances that led her to destroy thousands of the author’s personal letters.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 May 2025
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Olivia Jan, who worked on the Grassland Opera fragrance imagined the scent of the herbaceous orbexilum stipulatum flower.—
Nicole Mowbray,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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As the Royals’ offense has scuffled this season, fans have been dreaming of the team added Caglianone’s bat, even though he was drafted less than a year ago.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2025
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Unable to get up-and-down, his par attempt failed, ending his U.S. Open dreams.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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These appear to be slightly more survivable, although the casualty rate is so high no Western army would contemplate such tactics.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Smart’s captors subjected her to rape daily, something that drove her to the point of contemplating suicide.—
Stephanie Kaloi,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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The angsty teen, who’s got far too much access to firearms and fantasizes about blowing up his peers, lives with his ailing, Franzia-wine-box-guzzling grandmother (Becky Ann Baker, hilarious and sweatily confined to an easy chair).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
8 June 2025
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Like most things in life, the reality of fame is not what most people fantasize about.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Hence, musicians build skill while just visualizing playing.—
Stefan Falk,
CNBC,
30 May 2025
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The Chiefs’ owner can visualize the potential next chapter of his franchise, one that could begin in just six years.—
Nate Taylor,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Managers and their co-workers need to work hard to establish the link between the team goals and the firms vision and show how their work can effect the performance of the organization.—
Andrew Mawson,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2024
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In 2019, under the guidance of Assembly Chair Felix Rivera, the Assembly hired Laurie Wolf to facilitate a series of three strategic visioning meetings to better define our goals for years 2019-2021.—
Anchorage Daily News,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 Mar. 2020
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“Hallucinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallucinate. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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