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hallucinatory

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


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Bok, a mystically inclined author as well as artist, combined hallucinatory forms with imaginative fidelity to the texts he illustrated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"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

But the sound and lighting effects get rather heavy-handed during Josh’s hallucinatory meltdowns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 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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