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
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
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 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
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
That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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
“The people who allowed this to happen are not ghosts or figments of our imaginations. They are real and should be made to face the law immediately.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
The others are, for the most part, figments of someone’s imagination, self-interest, or wishful thinking.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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