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mirage

[mi-rahzh] / mɪˈrɑʒ /


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The mirage of privacy and convenience could be causing more people to turn to AI for health-related information.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

It will be four years before we find out if that’s a mirage as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

See more: The massive run-up in AI stocks this year may be built on a ‘token mirage’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

Potential investors, and tourists, see the war turning that vision into a mirage.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

The girl, who looked about Ernie’s age, wiped sweat from her forehead and squinted as if he and Genie weren’t actually there, as if they were a mirage.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

Instead, the focus is on the emotion and excitement of movie-making mirages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

It was the first of many Majorana mirages.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

The cure for these harrowing mirages turned out to be not a concoction of complex chemicals, as once suspected, but rather the simple antidote of lemon juice.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2022

Careful spectral analysis can reveal which arcs in deep-field images are actually mirror images and which are instead mirages.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022

It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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