figment
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Oddly, she appears as a sort of confidante with whom Odysseus speaks at intervals, and might be a figment of his imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Who knows, maybe the daughter is a figment of her imagination too, though I don’t think the movie supports such a reading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025
In 1993's True Romance, Kilmer played a version of Elvis Presley who is a figment of Christian Slater's imagination.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
The whole thing was a figment of his imagination.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
But the people around me weren’t figments of my imagination.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 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 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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