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hallucinatory

[huh-loo-suh-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / həˈlu sə nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

"These sort of almost hallucinatory plans are creating an opening for disaster capitalism that is worrying," argues Raja Khalidi, director general of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute, an independent think tank.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2025

With a bleary, almost hallucinatory sound that blended elements of rap from New York, L.A.,

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2025

The guest star roster expands this season, looping in Gwendoline Christie, John Noble, Merritt Wever and Alia Shawkat, among others, blending them into the show’s hallucinatory starkness without drawing us out of the story.

From Salon Jan. 17, 2025

Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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