figment of the imagination
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But how well will they win - and how intoxicating will that half-back partnership prove now that it is almost a reality rather than an exciting figment of the imagination?
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
The second is: a figment of the imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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 ● 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 ● Dec. 11, 2018
It is an impression of the sort I have met with in the works of poets or on the stage, but I always thought it was a figment of the imagination.
From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage
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