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mirage

[mi-rahzh] / mɪˈrɑʒ /


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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

This was just one of hundreds of posts that we are calling "mirage" content, which paint a deceptive picture of a place distinct from reality.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

See more: The massive run-up in AI stocks this year may be built on a ‘token mirage’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 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

I feel as if there’s not much left of me; they will slip through my arms, as if I’m made of smoke, as if I’m a mirage, fading before their eyes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

She mixes fact and fiction into these mirages of reality where it doesn’t matter whether things are true or false.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was the first of many Majorana mirages.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

They have variously reported four, six or even eight mirages of the background galaxy circling the cluster, with each number suggesting a slightly different distribution for Abell 3827’s dark matter.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 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

We walk and walk and walk, all down through town and past the graveyard and over the long strips of paved road where mirages shimmer in the sun.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender




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