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The phrase "a sort of mirage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears to be real or significant but is actually illusory or deceptive.
Example: "The promise of easy wealth through online trading felt like a sort of mirage, enticing yet ultimately unattainable."
Alternatives: "a kind of illusion" or "a type of fantasy".
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Unusually for this time of year, it is a still day: I see offshore a sort of mirage, a low piece of land, floating in the waters of Table Bay.
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A: Sort of.
A sort of "crossing mirage" if you will.
"There is a mirage, a sort of dream, that the youth of the country are living," Thiandoum said.
Nix said he thought it was some sort of mirage.
Of course, critics can disregard a statistic like that as a sort of European version of the infamous "fourth place trophy", a mirage-like prize.
Lenovo's Mirage headset is a tad complicated to get running with — it requires a sort of tracking beacon in order to anchor things to the real world.
Between a monument (Jackson) and a kind of mirage (Prince).
Even to Hanwell he seemed a kind of mirage, and nothing pleasant about it.
"A sort of blank".
"A sort of dream.
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