mirage
Example Sentences
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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 presumption that Dubai is a transient mirage, a Hollywood set built on sand that would unravel once the going gets tough, was no doubt shared in Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
But a big part of that discount might be because of a mirage created by accounting rules which reduces Salesforce’s near-term earnings unjustifiably, Nygren says.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
He walked toward me like a man in a desert, looking afraid that what he saw before him might be a mirage that would vanish when he got closer.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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