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figment

[fig-muhnt] / ˈfɪg mənt /


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So do the guilty verdicts mean the Premier League seasons between 2009-10 and 2017-18 should now be considered a figment of our collective imaginations too?

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

The whole thing was a figment of his imagination.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

Suppose all of these houses aren’t real at all, this bed not real, but only figments of my own imagination, given substance by telepathy and hypnosis through the Martians, thought Captain John Black.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury


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