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mirages

noun

plural of mirage

as in daydreams

something that comes from or exists only in the mind and is not real He thought he saw water up ahead but it was just a mirage.

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Recent Examples of mirages Season openers often produce outlier performances and knee-jerk overreactions that look like complete mirages by the end of the year. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026 The problems with mail ballots These easily explained mirages don’t necessarily mean that mail-ballot fraud is a nonissue and that there is nothing to be concerned about. — Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 These wall drawings—at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in 2024; the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2025; and Houston’s Menil Collection, in 2025—were all temporary, like frolicsome mirages. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026 The film opens with real mirages filmed near Aswan in Egypt, where atmospheric conditions produce optical distortions. — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026 Multimodal models see ‘mirages’ This past week has brought yet more evidence of how weird these models are. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026 Bat away mirages and stick to what’s really in your viewfinder. — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026 At the frontier edge of astronomy, tantalizing new observations have a tendency to be mirages. — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025 But inside, slabs of colored glass, hunks of polished resin, and sundry material experiments gleam like mirages in the sunlight that streams in from the ceiling and windows. — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025

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Noun

The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Walking through prewar Berlin, taking in its historic architecture, Susanna daydreams of her native New York, an ever-changing city where buildings are torn down and rebuilt in the blink of an eye.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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In a matter of weeks, when the midterm results are tallied and the next campaign begins, Democrats with presidential dreams know the question will be coming.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
In his dreams, Jose Fiscal Belli is still living an all-American life with his all-American family.

— Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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