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As Kunimoto says, private-fund valuations are often “a figment of imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Pat died in 2012, but was later seen on-screen again with Dame Barbara Windsor, when she returned as a figment of the dying Peggy's imagination in 2016.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

And if this ends up being nothing more than a figment of my imagination, where’s the harm in choosing not to question it, if it gives me something I’ve been so painfully missing.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

Achilles runs smoothly past the tortoise because the infinite points are simply a figment of Zeno's imagination, rather than a real-world construct.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

“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 new faces around the DAR are not figments of her imagination.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022

Serenades were played to sound like figments of the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

I guess you just can't control some people, even when they're only figments of your imagination.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda