figment of the imagination

But while those "commercial" jobs paid the bills, Bryan's passion was always for writing his own stories, including a two-parter for DC Comics in which Batman is all a figment of the imagination of a mentally unwell Bruce Wayne.

“It’s been difficult to defend having an established church since the beginning of the 20th century, but it is now becoming a figment of the imagination,” Scot Peterson, scholar of religion and the state at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, told the Guardian newspaper.

Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment of the imagination.

The second is: a figment of the imagination.

But since it was first discovered, Welwitschia has captivated biologists including Charles Darwin and the botanist Friedrich Welwitsch after whom the plant is named: It is said that when Welwitsch first came across the plant in 1859, “he could do nothing but kneel down on the burning soil and gaze at it, half in fear lest a touch should prove it a figment of the imagination.”