figment
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The revs are but an airy figment in your febrile mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
As Kunimoto says, private-fund valuations are often “a figment of imagination.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Pat died in 2012, but was later seen on-screen again with Dame Barbara Windsor, when she returned as a figment of the dying Peggy's imagination in 2016.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
The figment of a carriage appears in the distance, steadily drawing closer in Thomas’ sight as the sound of horses’ hooves mimics his steadily increasing heartbeat.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
As far as she was concerned, East Shoal and everything that had happened was nothing but a figment of my imagination.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
We meet them before we meet Sally and Theo, and whether they are figments or not, they are unmistakably haunting the new occupant who’s writing about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
But that's the issue, we have fictionalized a real-life relationship with our very own elusive figments of our imagination.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
“I will have them. They’ll be there. They won’t just be figments of imagination or floating around digitally. They’ll be real things that I can remember.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2022
Super Bowls have become so colossal in scale and technology that the players can seem as remote as game animations, framed figments in 4K HDR video.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
"Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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