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unreality

[uhn-ree-al-i-tee] / ˌʌn riˈæl ɪ ti /




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As Baldacci says in an essay this week, “Arguing about facts doesn’t deter outlandish ideas, misinformation or AI hallucination. Maybe more storytelling, more imagination, more fiction is what’s needed to combat the unreality spun online.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

In nighttime “reveries,” Gatsby embroidered his story, convincing himself “of the unreality of reality.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

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

Both were illusory, figments of our finite minds; both could be subdivided or extended infinitely; both, therefore, were unrealities.

From The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood




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