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surrealistically

  • a word derived from surrealism.
    surrealism
    noun
    a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
  • a word derived from surrealistic.
    surrealistic
    adjective
    of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.

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As he plays the game, the narrator finds himself surrealistically placed into a scene from his father’s life, where he controls the events that will determine his own future.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2022

“Adventure Time” creator Pendleton Ward surrealistically, psychedelically animates around interviews from collaborator Duncan Trussell’s mystically minded “Duncan Trussell Family Hour” podcast, framing them, to consonant or contrasting effect, as virtual interplanetary travel.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2021

The one thing is inanimate, the other animate, and yet they seem somehow, surrealistically, kindred.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 2011

It seemed the one circumstance that could stop McGovern and thus undo the almost surrealistically effective crusade he has waged since the wreckage of Chicago in 1968.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had Fischer not done as well as he did, his story might have ended right there, surrealistically, in the quiet back room of a chess club.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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