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unreality

[uhn-ree-al-i-tee] / ˌʌn riˈæl ɪ ti /




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As Baldacci says in an essay this week, “Arguing about facts doesn’t deter outlandish ideas, misinformation or AI hallucination. Maybe more storytelling, more imagination, more fiction is what’s needed to combat the unreality spun online.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of unreality.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

But they are facing threats from all sides: A vengeful president; a distracted and disengaged audience used to endless scrolling and pop-pop-pops of entertainment; the creeping unreality of A.I.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2026

The High Court ultimately described some of his submissions as having a "distinct air of unreality".

From BBC ● May 24, 2025

There was an air of unreality to it all, as if the situation would somehow, someway, magically fix itself.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

In the end, who are these fabulous unrealities hurting?

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

In fact, the unrealities of movie-land became a major subject of his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020

And of course, the way that all these unrealities can go smash when exposed to the light.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018

The temptation is to elude this labour by "making things up", by escaping into faux-realities or unrealities that are the unmediated projections of the subjective self.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

And yet, mathematics is not dealing with unrealities, for it is everywhere concerned with real rational types and systems where such types may be exemplified.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode


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