illusory
Example Sentences
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Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed.
“Just kind of illusory and make bad decisions and do bad things.”
From Washington Times
“Freedom of speech and of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side,” Fox said in court papers.
From Washington Times
The discoveries Bravo photographs are physical but sometimes so insubstantial that they feel illusory.
From Washington Post
Political analyst Graco Pérez in Honduras said Beijing’s narrative would highlight the benefits, including investment and job creation, “but that is all going to be illusory.”
From Seattle Times
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