hallucinate
verb (used without object)
to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
hallucinating
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present participleof hallucinate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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"This risk of a model making errors or hallucinating cannot be fully avoided in any technical way," said Munich Re's head of AI insurance, Michael von Gablenz.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
But AI large language models can make mistakes, or even make things up - known as "hallucinating".
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Participants in the second schizophrenia group, those without recent hallucinations, showed brain responses that fell between the healthy group and the hallucinating group.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
I have yet to see any implementation of A.I. that I could consider either general-purpose or foundational, and I think it’s absurd to look at the hallucinating chatbots and inaccurate A.I.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2025
Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
