Thesaurus results for HALLUCINATES

hallucinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of hallucinate

as in sees

to see or sense something or someone that is not really there; to have hallucinations The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.

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Recent Examples of hallucinates The one who says the model is a helpful autocomplete that hallucinates one time in ten gets nothing. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 In clinical environments bound by federal regulations and ethics guidelines, an LLM that hallucinates an endpoint or botches eligibility criteria does not just cause a minor hiccup. — Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 When a developer, for instance, instructs a coding agent to clone a popular new repository, the LLM hallucinates its correct location up to 85 percent of the time. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Back in season 1, episode 8, Neil Fak (Matty Matheson) hallucinates a conversation with The Bear’s Ballbreaker arcade game character. — Kirsten Acuna, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026 So what if the compass hallucinates half the time? — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026 Most notably, the line is crossed when AI hallucinates facts or strips away human voice. — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026 Colby scrambles through someone else’s bag like way back in season two, and someone hallucinates beef jerky. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 When used in legal cases, AI hallucinates between 17% adn 82% of the time, Kjoller’s petition suggested. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025

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Having dressed numerous actresses throughout her career, Chiuri sees a shift in red carpet culture toward individualized creations and, more recently, greater restraint.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Her firm sees the Indian currency trading around 97 per US dollar by end-2026 and at 98 rupees by mid-2027.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of sees

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Swift appears as a spectral figure trying to warn Johnson that, based on her own experience, her rich husband has more sinister intentions than his current bride imagines.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Our work re-imagines these ancient tombs as theatrical spaces, built to perpetuate a form of metaphysical human experience.

— Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of imagines

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Given the enormous threat AI poses to millions of jobs, the governor’s framework thoughtfully contemplates how to center Maryland workers in regulation of this technology.

— Matt Post, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2026
Neither yet contemplates an agent that delegates to another agent at four in the morning.

— Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of contemplates

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Denise has also been keeping secrets, chiefly about the manuscript for a novel she’s been banging out on a typewriter in the basement, one that happens to be about a woman who fantasizes about leaving her family behind for life in New York.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
The busboy, Oscar, fantasizes about slathering honey over Kelce's bared chest as he is tied to a pole, leaving him to be eaten by a bear.

— Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026

Definition of fantasizes

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The book visualizes these geometries through hundreds of scale drawings and illustrations, backed up by thorough research and real-world examples of how transport networks fit into urban design.

— Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The Explorer integrates and visualizes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other government agencies and local weather stations.

— Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026

Definition of visualizes

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But there is still hope in a season with 13 games left and Super Bowl dreams flickering.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Rounding out their trio is Hazel (Kennedi Reece), a sweet, naive young woman, completely sheltered by her conservative upbringing but determined to follow her Michelle Obama dreams.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

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