illusory
Example Sentences
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But many experts caution that predictions of communist rule ending have proved illusory.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
And even that 600,000 gain last year could prove illusory once the government updates the data to be more accurate.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026
Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
While students in Illinois tended to report the top line as longer, Zulu pastoralists in South Africa had a much weaker response, barely experiencing the illusory effects.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2025
And if I’m not going to find that with the Byrnes, I will find it, however partial and illusory, with the women in the sewing room.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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