Sentence examples for illusorily from inspiring English sources

The word "illusorily" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that appears to be true or real but is not actually so. For example: "The stock prices rose illusorily before plunging shortly after."

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illusorily

adverb

In an illusory fashion.

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A page later, he is "all around her". "[He] looked at her so levelly, with such measuring effect, that she barely recognized him" — and we are back on Seventh Avenue with the illusorily "knowable" faces of the passersby, back in the gallery with those murderous free spirits Baader and Meinhof, and we remember the girl saying that the paintings made her feel "how helpless a person can be".

His whole career seems faintly — perhaps illusorily — present in this grim but starkly beautiful trek, kind of shimmering on the horizon like a mirage.

But there is a long and illustrious lineage of clever-clogs club music, and in fact it could reasonably be argued that the history of dance music, from Motown and Philly to Chic, Jam & Lewis and beyond to today's Timbaland and Neptunes, is really the story of brainiac behind-scenes (male) technicians contriving illusorily intuitive melodies and rhythms for women to sing and dance to.

A page later, he is "all around her". "[He] looked at her so levelly, with such measuring effect, that she barely recognized him"—and we are back on Seventh Avenue with the illusorily "knowable" faces of the passersby, back in the gallery with those murderous free spirits Baader and Meinhof, and we remember the girl saying that the paintings made her feel "how helpless a person can be".

Whether taken as real or unreal, inferred validly or invalidly, said to be experienced directly or only projected illusorily, the divine identity in classical theism and atheism is unmistakably male.

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