hallucinate
verb (used without object)
to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
hallucinates
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present tense formof hallucinate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine that hallucinates in exchange for electricity, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling the track leaves behind.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
If an agent hallucinates, Arcade can catch the error and correct it, allowing the workflow to continue, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
"This means that visual information about things happening in the outside world becomes less accessible to our consciousness. To fill this gap in the puzzle, our brain inserts fragments from memory -- it hallucinates."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2026
What good is AI that analyzes financial data if it hallucinates numbers?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
Sometimes Enrique hallucinates that someone is chasing him.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
