surreal
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"Telling my story in full for the first time feels surreal and, in some ways, a long time coming," Wright says.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“Winning the Palme was surreal and exciting beyond belief,” Baker told me.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
"It feels surreal because my daughter's here," Beyonce told Vogue.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
The very notion of “Donnyland,” as the area would be called, is surreal, like something out of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” or Woody Allen’s “Bananas.”
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026
Time, as she had done to me for the past eighteen years, will provide them also with the half-baked answers to the surreal life I was about to sever myself from.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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