Thesaurus results for HALLUCINATES

hallucinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of hallucinate

as in sees

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 hallucinates When a developer, for instance, instructs a coding agent to clone a popular new repository, the LLM hallucinates its correct location up to 85 percent of the time. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Back in season 1, episode 8, Neil Fak (Matty Matheson) hallucinates a conversation with The Bear’s Ballbreaker arcade game character. — Kirsten Acuna, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026 The most damaging by far is factual inconsistency, when an AI hallucinates and provides incorrect information. — Jerry Haywood, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 So what if the compass hallucinates half the time? — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026 Most notably, the line is crossed when AI hallucinates facts or strips away human voice. — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026 Colby scrambles through someone else’s bag like way back in season two, and someone hallucinates beef jerky. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 When used in legal cases, AI hallucinates between 17% adn 82% of the time, Kjoller’s petition suggested. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025 Also, the scene where Pi hallucinates blindness and a talking Richard Parker (in French, oddly) is terrific. — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025

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No country has marshaled those efforts like China, where the government sees Tibet, and its Himalayan borderlands, as critical to its national and energy security.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Wall Street sees new treatments as an untapped goldmine, full of consumers who are willing to pay out-of-pocket for better options, reminiscent of the boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

— Avalon Pernell, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of sees

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Switzerland imagines Highsmith as a recluse in the Alps, closely guarding a cache of weapons and secrets after a lifetime spent writing mysteries.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

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Unrivaled, the 3×3 women’s professional basketball league, has completed an oversubscribed Series C fundraise at a value of $650 million, as the nearly three-year-old organization contemplates further geographic expansion.

— Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026
The pair move in together, as McConaughey contemplates a Texas gubernatorial run.

— Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of contemplates

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Denise has also been keeping secrets, chiefly about the manuscript for a novel she’s been banging out on a typewriter in the basement, one that happens to be about a woman who fantasizes about leaving her family behind for life in New York.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
The busboy, Oscar, fantasizes about slathering honey over Kelce's bared chest as he is tied to a pole, leaving him to be eaten by a bear.

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026

Definition of fantasizes

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The book visualizes these geometries through hundreds of scale drawings and illustrations, backed up by thorough research and real-world examples of how transport networks fit into urban design.

— Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The Explorer integrates and visualizes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other government agencies and local weather stations.

— Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026

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Hailing from humble beginnings in Greenwood, South Carolina, his experiences with football have always been centered around doing the impossible – dreams his father put in his head at an early age.

— Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
These rumors were never substantiated—but Harry did reference his mother’s California dreams in the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, per PopSugar.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026

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