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The apparent progress might be illusory.illusory = false or misleading
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The promise of quick success proved illusory once the hard work began.
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Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy.
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After his mind had calmed down a bit, he again had the thought that Three Body was deliberately pretending to be merely illusory, while in fact possessing some deep reality.† (source)
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It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.† (source)
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Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.† (source)
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Your access to the shadows, in this case illusory shadows, facilitates bad behavior.† (source)
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Amid the City of Illusoriness of the Six World-Planes The chieffactor is the sin and obscuration born of evil works; Therein the being followeth dictates of likes and dislikes, And findeth ne'er the time to know Equality: Avoid, O my son, likes and dislikes.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But if my mind is playing tricks, isn't it more likely to be the dream that's illusory?† (source)
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The air was occasionally rent with the sounds of illusory beings murdering other illusory beings.† (source)
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Each lash of disappointment leaving Maman more damaged, more derailed, and happiness more illusory.† (source)
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Sarah Byrnes has never been someone with whom I felt comfortable talking about my illusory love life.† (source)
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It was a love that had nothing to do with Joe Camber's day-to-day behavior toward him or his mother; it was a brute, biological thing that he would never be free of, a phenomenon with many illusory referents of the sort which haunt for a lifetime: the smell of cigar-smoke, the look of a double-edged razor reflected in a mirror, pants hung over a chair, certain curse words.† (source)
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People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but Beth had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.† (source)
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One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.† (source)
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But even the most complaisant of his notable friends pitied his illusory passion.† (source)
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