Vocabulary
Illusion
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.
Urdu meaning
وہم، دھوکہ، فریب
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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Encounter killings offer the illusion of swift results.
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Extrajudicial killing
— 2026-04-22
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What matters now is what Pakistan chooses to build on the other side and whether it leads to real change rather than the illusion of it.
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The carbon test
— 2026-04-06
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Last October`s `ceasefire` has proved a mere illusion.
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International silence
— 2026-03-25
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This is also why, as any stu-dent of history knows, LGs have flourished during times of dictatorship, and have long been used to create an illusion of decentralisation, while circumventing the provincialtier andits politicalleadership.
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Federation demolition
— 2026-02-25
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Yet we must be under no illusion; the threat of a conflict continues to exist and unless all participants, particularly the US, engage in good faith, the danger of a devastating regional war has yet to pass.
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Iran-US talks
— 2026-02-05
Synonyms
mirage, hallucination, apparition, phantasm, phantom, vision, spectre, fantasy
Curator example
“stripes embellish the surface to create the illusion of various wood-grain textures”
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