mirage
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But it all proved to be a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
See more: The massive run-up in AI stocks this year may be built on a ‘token mirage’
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Potential investors, and tourists, see the war turning that vision into a mirage.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Like Lionel Messi before him, Lamine Yamal has perfected the art of weaving in off the right flank, a hazy mirage of blaugrana turning defenders to stone, before a trademark left-foot finish.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Another swears it was a mirage, some sort of hallucination, possibly caused by evil emanations surrounding 803 Oriole Street.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Instead, the focus is on the emotion and excitement of movie-making mirages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
It was the first of many Majorana mirages.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
Some will likely turn out to be mirages, much closer galaxies masquerading as more remote ones because they contain large amounts of dust, which also causes their light to be redshifted.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022
Ironman is no one’s idea of a spectator sport, and the XC hosts can only do so much about that, but without proper guidance it can be miserable, like chasing mirages in a desert.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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