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mirage

[mi-rahzh] / mɪˈrɑʒ /


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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

Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The Hims & Hers strategy of undercutting patented drugs arguably went too far and always seemed like a mirage, as far as strategy goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

The sky and the mountain were at an immense distance, shimmering in the heat; and the reef was lifted by mirage, floating in a land of silver pool halfway up the sky.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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