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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

The High Court ultimately described some of his submissions as having a "distinct air of unreality".

From BBC May 24, 2025

Impressively, “Grand Tour” illuminates the artificiality of its trappings while honoring them, tapping into our collective acceptance of the “reality” of cinema’s unreality.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2025

He felt a moment of curious suspension, as when you have been awake for a long time you have certain moments of unreality, of numbness, of the beginning of sleep.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting?

From Salon May 2, 2021

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

But surely there is too much solidity about the story, too thorough an atmosphere of belief around it, to suit a tale relating such airy unrealities as those.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various




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