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unreal

[uhn-ree-uhl, -reel] / ʌnˈri əl, -ˈril /


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Hakim Akram, who works in the shop and is the nephew of the shop owner, says the crash felt "unreal"

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hypnopompic hallucinations are what specialists call the unreal things people see or hear during the transition from sleep to waking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"It seems unreal -- how is it possible that rather than a single pathway we see all these effects happening simultaneously and only in tumors and not in healthy tissues?"

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

And L.A., a lot of the time, there’s things that happen here that are crazy, that feel almost unreal, but they are real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

There were more lines, more waits, more shuffling from desk to desk, but already the camp and its procedures had become unreal to me.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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