figment
Example Sentences
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As Kunimoto says, private-fund valuations are often “a figment of imagination.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Pat died in 2012, but was later seen on-screen again with Dame Barbara Windsor, when she returned as a figment of the dying Peggy's imagination in 2016.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
Who knows, maybe the daughter is a figment of her imagination too, though I don’t think the movie supports such a reading.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
"And it was light and nothing, no tongue, and it was beautiful, it was 'The Princess Bride,'" she said, adding that it feels like such a figment that Taddeo doesn’t even remember how it happened.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2024
Her child—not a figment of her imagination, but her child in the world.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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