figment
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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
While the gesture is also known as the "Roman salute," there is no known Roman art or text that depicts or describes it, and the association was likely just a figment of fascist propaganda.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
It was as if they all believed as Thomas did—that Gaily was only a figment of their imagination.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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 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
The new faces around the DAR are not figments of her imagination.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 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
The others are, for the most part, figments of someone’s imagination, self-interest, or wishful thinking.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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