mirage
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7.7
- noun
- /mɪˈrɑːʒ/
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espejismo
- My entire life seems like a question mark, peace and stability as elusive as a mirage in the desert.
- demographic mirage
Climate change is being used, I believe, as a mirage to tear people's rights away.
- Climate change is being used, I believe, as a mirage to tear people's rights away.
- The end circumscribed by these plans remain mirages.
- However, the pivot was right to the nine months since that one stupid mirage of a border bill was tanked.
- So a lot of people go through life chasing a, a mirage and a wise person will realize the folly of that.
- It's, I think I described it as like The Mirage of a finish line, just like keeps on going, getting further and further away.
- But if you can have moments when you get out of your own way, then you'll see that a lot of the stuff that we get so caught up in, it's like it's a mirage.
- So we've just spent a decade chasing a mirage that can't be there and we should have spent that decade working on the things that we're going to talk more about today.
- Fantasy, folly, bunk science, epicycles, a mirage, unscientific, and on and on it goes.
- EA Sports, Tesla, it's all those are the governments now, YouTube, the rest of the stuff's it's a mirage.
Examples
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After hours of searching for a solution, I realized that my hopes for an easy fix were just a mirage.
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Of all the ways this desert tests you, the most dangerous is the mirage.
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It's been a kind of mirage that constructed itself and then believed in itself.
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This they sort of call that the Biden mirage or the Trump mirage when you get this initial wave going one way or another.
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This is all just a mirage of royal ambitions.
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Until the company invests in cleaner technology, its environmental gains will be largely a mirage.
Academic text (1996) -
The bright colors, the 'classlessness,' and especially the optimism of the sixties now seemed like a mirage.
Academic text (2014) -
By the mid-1990s, however, this hopeful vision was dissolving like a fading mirage.
Academic text (2001) -
Across the water, Detroit flickered in the moonlight, the skyline rising above them like a mirage.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many people pursue fame and fortune, but for most, it's merely a mirage that is impossible to grasp.
Synonyms
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3.7
A wrong idea that many people believe
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4.6
A false idea or appearance that makes you think something is true
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6.8
A hope or plan that is not likely to happen
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7.5
An idea or plan that is unlikely to happen
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7.2
A false idea that people think is true
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7.4
An imaginative idea that is unlikely to be true or useful
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9.3
An imagined hope or plan that cannot be achieved
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6.8
A hope for something you cannot achieve
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A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost
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8.2
An idea or plan that is unrealistic and unlikely to happen
A hope that leads people on but cannot be reached
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mirage comes from the French mirer 'to look' and the Latin mirari 'to wonder', and it is like the English word mirror because it plays on what we see. So a mirage for an idea or hope is something that seems real or possible at first but is actually an illusion.