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unreality

[uhn-ree-al-i-tee] / ˌʌn riˈæl ɪ ti /




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There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2025

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

From BBC May 24, 2025

It sticks with us because of how vividly it captured the hysterical unreality of living in a turbulent age, and how it picked at the scabs crusting over the face of the American dream.

From Slate Oct. 29, 2024

But there is a seduction to the unreality of these images, too.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2024

I followed him, filled with a sense of Jack's outrageous unreality.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Able to create beautiful, lived-in realities and fantastical unrealities that are overflowing with detail.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2023

Love, loss, grief, fate, family and connection are its recurring themes, turned this way and that through overlapping realities and unrealities.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2018

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

He may be the slave of a thousand unrealities.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.




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