figment
Example Sentences
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We meet them before we meet Sally and Theo, and whether they are figments or not, they are unmistakably haunting the new occupant who’s writing about them.
From Los Angeles Times
The revs are but an airy figment in your febrile mind.
And if this ends up being nothing more than a figment of my imagination, where’s the harm in choosing not to question it, if it gives me something I’ve been so painfully missing.
From Salon
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
At the time, the threat from Hamilton was so distant as to be almost a figment of the imagination.
From BBC
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