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- adjective   Of or pertaining to pareidolia .
Etymologies
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pareidolia + -ic
			
		
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Examples
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								For the ones in the middle-structures, formations, smudges, and shapes that give us a pareidolic reaction that causes us to see a face-they used photographs that machine vision systems had falsely tagged as faces. Ars Technica WIRED UK 2012 
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								For the ones in the middle - structures, formations, smudges and shapes that give us a pareidolic reaction that causes us to see a face - they used photographs that machine vision systems had falsely tagged as faces. Wired Top Stories Wired UK 2012 
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								I now return you to your regularly scheduled pareidolic ruminations. Bad Astronomy 2008 
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