figments

plural of figment

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Recent Examples of figments Are the protagonist’s past lives real, or just figments of his psychosis? Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for figments
Noun
  • Not even Trump can have any illusions now.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Eclipses bring truth to the surface, so don’t cling to illusions.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It is rooted in the dehumanizing language and convenient fictions that precede acts of violence.
    Brad Braxton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Paranoia-inducing fictions like Wells’s aside, the public came to view Martians not as monsters but as representatives of a higher civilization—as angels, even, at a time when new science was shaking old religious certainties.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The aforementioned masks, for instance, hasten strange visions for Blakey, but the film’s hard boundary between his dreams and waking life sap these sequences of all tension.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As a guy who is simply not built for summer (sweaty, burns easily, refuses to wear shorts), the turning of the calendar to September adds a little lead to my tread, with visions of cider and sweaters dancing in my head.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Season 2 once again explores the consequences of turning fantasies into reality in suburban Britain.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • From cozy, whimsical fantasies to historical fiction and horror, this guide to August’s brightest new releases has something for everyone.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ellen retreats to her room and daydreams of her father, who understood his headstrong daughter.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Everyone who shows up to his office tries to make one of his dreams come true.
    Debbie Day, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Podium or not, Larsen is looking to the future with one audience on her mind — young girls with dreams of getting into motorsport.
    Spencer Whaley, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their empires cracked, their shadows receded, and their names faded into cautionary tales.
    John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Often, mental health experts see a change in delusions when new technologies are developed.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For an in-depth look at AI psychosis and especially the co-creation of delusions via human-AI collaboration, see my recent analysis at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Figments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figments. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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