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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a figment of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is imagined or not real, often in the context of thoughts, ideas, or perceptions.
Example: "The creature he described was merely a figment of a vivid imagination."
Alternatives: "an illusion of a" or "a product of a".
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Connecting this heroism to her participation in Rio is a smart way of suggesting that the Olympic ideal isn't merely a figment of a publicist's imagination.
In the film that he released last year, "In Another Country," Isabelle Huppert stars as a French woman visiting South Korea but the character is actually a figment of a young writer's imagination and undergoes three incarnations that differ according to the writer's fancies.
But this is a real car, in the metal, and not a figment of a cartoonist's imagination.
It's a figment of a lame cunt's imagination.
Nuclear brinksmanship was, for decades, a figment of a bygone, wayward era.
Still, enough people report experiencing roughly the same thing in response to roughly the same stimuli and enough people are watching odd videos in an attempt to trigger themselves that it would take an especially prejudiced skeptic to say that ASMR was purely a figment of a few thousand people's imaginations (there are over 22,000 subscribers to the ASMR section of Reddit).
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But Gray does not want to believe that they were merely a figment of an antique but ethically progressive imagination.
Last week, the cartoonist Joe Dator facetiously explained how the facts of his own life combined to create a drawing that seemed as though it was a figment of an artist's fevered imagination.
For starters, the eponymous protagonist is not just a figment of an author's fervent imagination but an actual living being, glimpsed by Mary Shelley when she was a child; moreover, he is still very much alive, roaming the arctic wastes of our ever-warming globe.
But they also explained that they were reminding the public of what was often forgotten in Japan's subculture: that the nuclear threat was real, not a figment of an otherworldly imagination.ChimPom says it pays homage to Mr Murakami, but its work has moved on.
A figment of all of our collective imaginations.
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