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Oddly, she appears as a sort of confidante with whom Odysseus speaks at intervals, and might be a figment of his imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

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 ● Oct. 31, 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

“It’s merely a figment of your overly active imagination,” Lori said.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

But that's the issue, we have fictionalized a real-life relationship with our very own elusive figments of our imagination.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

But its various figments and narratives had merged, as such poppycock tends to do, with an older and homegrown genre of German extremism.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

The new faces around the DAR are not figments of her imagination.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022

Two figures near the end of a dock in one large painting barely materialize; time and distance have rendered them figments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

I guess you just can't control some people, even when they're only figments of your imagination.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda