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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

The concept of the Great American Novel, introduced by John W. De Forest in 1868, has always been a mirage, since the country is too varied to be contained in a single work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 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

I stand there, staring at the perfection and wondering if it’s a mirage.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

Don't the words "recovery" and "convalescence" shimmer in your imagination like mirages?

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

Some will likely turn out to be mirages, much closer galaxies masquerading as more remote ones because they contain large amounts of dust, which also causes their light to be redshifted.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022

These mirages made navigation around the bergs very dangerous, because it was often hard to tell what was a real iceberg and what was a phantom.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong