figment

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The revs are but an airy figment in your febrile mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 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

“He’s in great shape. We were talking hitting. Obviously, he’s a huge fan of Shohei. I told him, ‘I always thought he was a figment of my imagination.’

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

Achilles runs smoothly past the tortoise because the infinite points are simply a figment of Zeno's imagination, rather than a real-world construct.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife