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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

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

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

Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain?

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

“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

Two figures near the end of a dock in one large painting barely materialize; time and distance have rendered them figments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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