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Meanings of illusion in English
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.
Synonyms
Examples for "fancy"
Examples for "fancy"
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They are trained, trained not in fancy debate, but in practical discussion.
2
Instead, they are free to prosecute their ambitious agenda however they fancy.
3
Why government ministers need super fancy cars is also a bit baffling.
4
Good tinned tuna is fine if you don't fancy the preserving process.
5
It's much more than just fancy version of existing active safety technology.
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The order is the latest threat to the daily fantasy sports industry.
2
Daily fantasy sports companies are now looking to protect their home turf.
3
It could be a highly effective way of combating fantasy with reality.
4
That changed radically about a year later, when daily fantasy sports emerged.
5
The politicians used the intervention fantasy to combat the emasculated national self-image.
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There is more literary phantasy in the phrase than there is truth.
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The criterion of truth then was no other than the gripping phantasy.
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Before that gunpowder was a mere imagination, a phantasy of the alchemists.
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Boethus, that it is a phantasy presented to us by fiery air.
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There are two kinds of thinking, reality thinking and phantasy or day-dreaming.
Usage of illusion in English
1
However, there should be no illusion: there are no press freedom implications.
2
However, Bernanke suggested emerging market authorities are suffering from an optical illusion.
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And the interesting situation was that we managed to create the illusion.
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Of course, you could say that free will is an illusion anyway.
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And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion.
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The profiler's illusion, of course, is that his work is a science.
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Then the illusion is lost in the next turn of the reel.
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Although which side is the illusion and which side is the reality?
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They rested on an illusion that stability and 'normality' were within reach.
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Undefined memory, perhaps an illusion; who could say where that memory began?
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In fact, the more scenery you have the less illusion you produce.
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It is nevertheless misleading; it is the illusion of an idle fancy.
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The conjecture was absurd; she was the victim of some optical illusion.
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It's not the first time an illusion has left internet users baffled.
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First came the illusion of time to distinguish one moment from another.
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Perhaps we're guided by an illusion; we're surely not guided by consciousness.
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Illusion through the time
Illusion across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Australia
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United States of America
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