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mirage

noun as in imaginary vision

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The moment was a mirage of the kind of glory that Wall and the Wizards wanted to achieve.

Virtual reality innovator Jaron Lanier thinks the early dream of free information was a mirage and that making everything free, in exchange for advertising, would lead to a manipulative society.

This may surprise some people who assume all of the gains are a mirage.

From Fortune

Meanwhile, a “red mirage” could happen elsewhere on the map, specifically those states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan that are processing and counting ballots much later.

From Vox

There are landmarks and there are mirages, and the mirages need maps most of all.

From Eater

I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar.

In Turkey the Qataris flew French Mirage jets, not exactly cutting edge equipment but still formidable.

Those goals are like a desert mirage, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better the medium will be.

The ER—at least on the surface—is a mirage to many of these inconveniences.

This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the Mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes.

The vision of the universal happiness seen by the economists has proved a mirage.

See that white blot, far out to the east, rising in the evening mirage,—it must be Fort Riley!

He longed for and sought his desires always, to see them vanish like a mirage just as they seemed within his grasp.

Mirage or no mirage, you must not too implicitly trust your eyes in the fantastic atmosphere of the high plains.

It is apart from my purpose to explain the mirage scientifically, and not altogether in my power.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mirage, such as: delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, phantasm, and ignis fatuus.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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