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.
The report says many hundreds of people were wrongly convicted of criminal offences, and thousands were held responsible for losses that were illusory.
From BBC
Certain aspects of aging are less illusory, right?
From Los Angeles Times
To some extent it fits the coldness of the quartet — they hug and hoot and occasionally express a droplet of emotion, but the friendship on which they insist is competitive, transactional and illusory.
From Los Angeles Times
When we start to see these splits as illusory — because they are, they don't need to be real — we can view ourselves more as a community and begin to problem-solve and collaborate.
From Salon
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