illusion
Example Sentences
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Investors have cheered the extra supply from Saudi Arabia, but are under no illusions that it’s enough to knock down crude-oil futures prices, which were looking at gains of 46% for the week.
From MarketWatch
He recommends a solution: “Developers must actively engineer the illusion of consciousness out of the products.”
I'm under no illusions how difficult it will be but I'm not going to retire because something I tried didn't work for me.
From BBC
“A move away from the layered, the blobby, the clean — to something with more illusion of or allusion to an id.”
From Los Angeles Times
Not everyone in the region is so heartened; the war has shattered the illusion that the Gulf is a luxurious safe haven.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
