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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

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

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

Herbert Simon said, "If you go down this path you're basing all of economics on the principle of unreality."

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025

It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

We passed Baker & Inglis, closed for vacation and succumbing to the unreality of schools during summertime.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting?

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

Love, loss, grief, fate, family and connection are its recurring themes, turned this way and that through overlapping realities and unrealities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2018

And of course, the way that all these unrealities can go smash when exposed to the light.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018

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

Its unrealities were vitally real, its Lilliputian sultans and pashas great potentates.

From The Salamander by Owen Johnson


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