illusion
Example Sentences
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Wash trading is a practice in which traders move assets back and forth to create the illusion of genuine activity.
That ownership created an illusion of safety — not because prices could not fall, but because investors assumed liquidity would always be available.
From MarketWatch
The latter is notable for its off-center, diagonal composition, which creates the illusion that the space of the painting and that of the church are one.
Such loveliness as he had seen was an illusion.
From Literature
The so-called creative-cliff illusion leads us to abandon the search before it heats up.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
