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Oddly, she appears as a sort of confidante with whom Odysseus speaks at intervals, and might be a figment of his imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The revs are but an airy figment in your febrile mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

But how well will they win - and how intoxicating will that half-back partnership prove now that it is almost a reality rather than an exciting figment of the imagination?

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

The whole article is just a figment of the imagination.”

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

But the people around me weren’t figments of my imagination.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2023

But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 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