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figment of imagination







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Mr Stalin denied this, calling it a "figment of imagination of Vikatan" and that Mr Martin had never donated to his party.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024

Liberated, she wanders, dances and finds her romantic foil, in a series of scenes that could either be a figment of imagination or as real as it gets.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2016

Axact condemns this story as baseless, substandard, maligning, defamatory, and based on false accusations and merely a figment of imagination published without taking the company’s point of view.

From New York Times • May 18, 2015

“He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in a war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.”

From New York Times • May 14, 2010

You must not think, reader, that ill sketching Miss Ainley's character I depict a figment of imagination.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte