noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (a figment of) sb's imagination
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All that is left to connect us to the past is the imagination .
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My subject was landscape and imagination .
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No, it was just my imagination running riot.
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Puny appeared thoughtful, or was it his imagination ?
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The real limit to whatever ingenious notions and ideas we may develop is our own imagination .
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Thoughts are things; imagination is experience.
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Was it his imagination , or could he really feel the beginnings of a headache?
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Yet it was not all imagination .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was a ghost I carried around inside me, a prehistoric figment , a thing that was no longer real.
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No one ever turned up such a child, whose existence seems to have been yet another figment of fertile right-wing imaginations.
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Suddenly, it seemed utterly unbelievable, a mere figment of her dreamlike state.
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True, the commercially successful electric car is still a figment .
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Whether the circle of churches exists, or whether it is a figment of a map-maker's imagination remains to be seen.