figment of the imagination
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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
Then again, the uncanny clown sightings might be more figment of the imagination than genuine fright.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2016
This was a lithe shape streaking through my open window—a figment of the imagination, as I concluded at the time, the tail-end of a dream visibly retreating in the moment of awakening.
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Rohmer, Sax
