figment

The “discourse” online is between figments of ourselves, ghosts in dialogue.

But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination.

Equally divided consensus says: a figment of her imagination, or Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr.

Despite aural evidence to the contrary, Mr. Bhatt, however, insisted the noise was a figment of my imagination.

We gave America its gangster legends—but our guy, Al Capone, was real, not a fictional figment like Vito Corleone or Tony Soprano.

That this whole thing was a figment of Mr. Hamblen's imagination.

This indeed was his spiritual and mental reality for her; the rest of him was a figment, a dream that might pass suddenly away.

And yet it is not true that matter is a pure figment of the imagination; it has an existence of its own, a potential existence.

The forms of government are abstractions, not names of realities, and their 'mixture' is a pure figment.

It was not that to my feelings the obligations were really a mere figment of pretence.