figment of the imagination
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At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.
From BBC β Sep. 7, 2025
The second is: a figment of the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 15, 2022
This causes first-time customers to step a little to the left and peer in the full-length window to ensure that this wood-fired pizzeria in the middle of nowhere isn’t just a figment of the imagination.
From Seattle Times β Feb. 18, 2021
He then tweeted about how he used the time to reflect on how pain is a figment of the imagination, which came as news to the many chronic pain sufferers who proceeded to ratio him.
From The Verge β Dec. 11, 2018
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
From No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York by William Lloyd Garrison
