mirage
Example Sentences
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Potential investors, and tourists, see the war turning that vision into a mirage.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 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
Then there’s Texas, the perennial Democratic mirage — always shimmering on the horizon.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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
The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing mirage
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