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With such political experience he will sense that to many within and beyond the SNP, independence seems like something of a political mirage at the moment.

Last week’s economic data brought home the reality for many Americans: That what they are experiencing at stores like Walmart is not a mirage.

If the promise of AI turns out to be as much of a mirage as dot-coms did, stock investors may face a painful reckoning.

Tom Andrews, the United Nation's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, had in June accused the junta of designing a "mirage of an election exercise" to give itself a veneer of legitimacy.

Shimmering in the incandescent light off the Pacific, its existence today seems almost a mirage, a dream from long ago on the verge of waking up to its inherent vulnerabilities.