mirage
Example Sentences
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Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Like Lionel Messi before him, Lamine Yamal has perfected the art of weaving in off the right flank, a hazy mirage of blaugrana turning defenders to stone, before a trademark left-foot finish.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
“The scene seemed to collapse under all these absences,” Ms. Lewin reports, “the mirage of the writer’s room destroyed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
But a big part of that discount might be because of a mirage created by accounting rules which reduces Salesforce’s near-term earnings unjustifiably, Nygren says.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
Another swears it was a mirage, some sort of hallucination, possibly caused by evil emanations surrounding 803 Oriole Street.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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