MIRAGES Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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
And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026

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If the Dodgers win the series, the Milwaukee winter could be cold and long, with fans tortured by visions of Skubal and presumptive Cy Young winner Jacob Misiorowski starting four games in the series.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
After coming into contact with the squid, Wade begins to have visions of the hag, a black-haired, sopping-wet woman in white who comes to him repeatedly.

— Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

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