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Recent Examples of unreal Spectators and commentators alike were taken aback as the incident unfolded due to the unreal farmer's tan of Phillips. Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025 It’s got an immersive screen that makes games look unreal, and the OLED panel blows everything else out of the water with its colors and contrast. Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025 Overdo it, and your image can easily look over-processed and unreal. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025 On one level all of this felt so unreal, things that had happened in another era and to another person, things, really, that had not happened. Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unreal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreal
Adjective
  • The biggest change, however, has been in fly ball frequency - his fly ball rate is now an absurd 50.0%, higher than any 2024 MLB regular.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • What else can be said about Judge’s absurd start to this season?
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Sinner won a bizarre semifinal in his first tournament back from a three-month doping ban, while Alcaraz triumphed in a sloppy duel.
    Sam Settleman, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Known for its deluge of gruesome deaths that just get more bizarre with each iteration, Final Destination is now returning for a sixth movie.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The two stars of the Emmy-winning 1990s romantic comedy series Northern Exposure, set in the zany fictitious town of Cicely, Alaska, are adding their names to the avalanche of television stars binging their old shows, offering commentary about the storylines and sharing behind-the-scenes tales.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 6 May 2025
  • Later on, Weekend Update featured a trio of guest appearances from Bowen Yang who resurrected his recurring Chinese trade minister Chen Biao, Emil Wakim and his notes on American patriotism and Sarah Sherman as Jost’s fictitious accountant Dawn Altman.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And this is not a story of corporate greed run amok, because Walmart would be foolish to try to gouge its customers at a time when economic anxiety is high (more on that in a moment).
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
  • Peters said the training from Wayne State's Institute of Gerontology has helped credit union employees to better frame probing questions that will get a positive response without making members feel foolish.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The imaginary elements of the story — the witches, and the university — stem from growing up with my father, and reading novels by Julio Verne and Emilio Salgari.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
  • New York is a realm of fantasy and myth, obsession and resentment, fear and bewilderment for many who’ve never set foot in it; and many who live here also purvey and perpetuate some version of the imaginary city.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • If 51% of the population is being so underserved, the ratio to opportunity is insane.
    Gemma Allen, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Helios, the Greek god of the sun, and Luna, the mythical goddess of the moon, stand guard at either end of Celestial Park.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
  • The green obsidian was also thought to have a symbolic connection to Tollan, a mythical city where the god Quetzalcoatl lived, which was believed to be the ancestral origin of Mexico’s civilizations.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ready to swap the real-world drama for a fictional web of secrets and lies?
    Andrea Bartz, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • The kind now best distilled into a fictional massacre in a galaxy far, far away.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025

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“Unreal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreal. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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