figment
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As Kunimoto says, private-fund valuations are often “a figment of imagination.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
And if this ends up being nothing more than a figment of my imagination, where’s the harm in choosing not to question it, if it gives me something I’ve been so painfully missing.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
Who knows, maybe the daughter is a figment of her imagination too, though I don’t think the movie supports such a reading.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
While the gesture is also known as the "Roman salute," there is no known Roman art or text that depicts or describes it, and the association was likely just a figment of fascist propaganda.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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