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unreality

[uhn-ree-al-i-tee] / ˌʌn riˈæl ɪ ti /




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Maybe more storytelling, more imagination, more fiction is what’s needed to combat the unreality spun online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But they are facing threats from all sides: A vengeful president; a distracted and disengaged audience used to endless scrolling and pop-pop-pops of entertainment; the creeping unreality of A.I.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2026

There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025

"Mr Bridgen's case as pleaded and evidenced so far does not have an obvious quality of unreality," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

It seemed to burn feeling back into him, dispelling the numbness and sense of unreality, firing him with something that was like courage.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Able to create beautiful, lived-in realities and fantastical unrealities that are overflowing with detail.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

But now he’s building whole new unrealities, ones in which seeing isn’t believing—ever.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2020

In fact, the unrealities of movie-land became a major subject of his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020

The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

The ability to converse glibly about authors who wallow in human unrealities will then no longer be considered the hall-mark of culture.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking




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