mirages
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pluralof mirage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
miragenounan optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
Example Sentences
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Instead, the focus is on the emotion and excitement of movie-making mirages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
It was the first of many Majorana mirages.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
Some will likely turn out to be mirages, much closer galaxies masquerading as more remote ones because they contain large amounts of dust, which also causes their light to be redshifted.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2022
New York has a commercial Museum of Illusions, a tourist attraction in the Meatpacking District whose optical mirages invite visitors to “Trick your eye and entertain your mind!”
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
If she concentrated, she could see her normal arms, but when she moved them they rippled like mirages, separating into three different sets of muscular Earthborn arms.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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