figment of the imagination
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At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025
The second is: a figment of the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
This causes first-time customers to step a little to the left and peer in the full-length window to ensure that this wood-fired pizzeria in the middle of nowhere isn’t just a figment of the imagination.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2021
He then tweeted about how he used the time to reflect on how pain is a figment of the imagination, which came as news to the many chronic pain sufferers who proceeded to ratio him.
From The Verge • Dec. 11, 2018
And yet it is not true that matter is a pure figment of the imagination; it has an existence of its own, a potential existence.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
