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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

In 1993's True Romance, Kilmer played a version of Elvis Presley who is a figment of Christian Slater's imagination.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

“He’s in great shape. We were talking hitting. Obviously, he’s a huge fan of Shohei. I told him, ‘I always thought he was a figment of my imagination.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

His “enthusiasm” for the weapon was a figment of Alvarez’s imagination.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

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

"Have a little faith," she coaches herself, as the dark shape floats easily through the screen like smoke or clouds or figments of any sort.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez