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?
From BBC • Jul. 1, 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
What a figment of the imagination this boasted impregnability of the Bank of England was the sequel will show.
From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin