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Who knows, maybe the daughter is a figment of her imagination too, though I don’t think the movie supports such a reading.

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At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.

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But how well will they win - and how intoxicating will that half-back partnership prove now that it is almost a reality rather than an exciting figment of the imagination?

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As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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