illusion

The goal was to get an audience member to buy the illusion that U2 is onstage.

Women will keep on doing the work of combat jobs, but will be denied the titles, honors and rewards of doing so, just to prop up the illusion that only men have the toughness to handle it.

To combat the onslaught, the site’s Community Notes feature acts as the law—but it’s an illusion of control.

Memory prompts provide the illusion of memory by reminding us of a key event, while simultaneously giving us a shortcut to forgetting most of what surrounded it.

Maybe we can even start to throw out the idea that any “cool” factor is an illusion.