mirage
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The mirage of privacy and convenience could be causing more people to turn to AI for health-related information.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
See more: The massive run-up in AI stocks this year may be built on a ‘token mirage’
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Potential investors, and tourists, see the war turning that vision into a mirage.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Then there’s Texas, the perennial Democratic mirage — always shimmering on the horizon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
There, shimmering like a mirage at the edge of the battlefield, is a figure.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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It was the first of many Majorana mirages.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
Don't the words "recovery" and "convalescence" shimmer in your imagination like mirages?
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
The tale of that man, his map, and the place it led to is really one about Southern California’s twin mirages — fame and fortune — and the people who seek one or the other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
New York has a commercial Museum of Illusions, a tourist attraction in the Meatpacking District whose optical mirages invite visitors to “Trick your eye and entertain your mind!”
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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