delusion
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Another member calls the group home the House of Vainglorious Delusion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The rise and inevitable fall of the infamous stuffed toy was the subject of Zac Bissonnette’s heavily researched 2015 book “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023
But a few years ago Gore was given the book “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute,” by Zac Bissonnette, as a possible adaptation.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023
One day he was reading The God Delusion, a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins questioning personal beliefs, when Pareek remembered the motorcycle deity in Jodhpur.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2021
Delusion is much stronger than illusion, and implies that Cyril has been misled or deceived—in this case, by himself. alternate/alternative.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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