Word: figment
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...Upper-Middle-Income Costley's $9-a-pair sneakers have got to be a figment of somebody's imagination, unless they're being imported from Spain...
...actual event. Because Homer wrote 400 years after the war, adds U.S. Archaeologist Rhys Carpenter, he probably could be forgiven lapses on particulars. Berve does not think that Homer should be treated so charitably as a historian, but he concedes that, while the Trojan War is probably the "figment of the poet's imagination," that should not detract from the literary value of Homer's epic. When he ends his lectures, Berve quotes Schiller's poem, "To My Friends...
...called friend who snatches money out of the hands of wheelchair cripples and has married the same girl four times, and was always good for a column when Breslin was hard up, which was often. But Allen, who is real even if he sounds like a figment of Breslin's fertile Gaelic fancy, will no longer read about his exploits in the papers. At 39, Breslin is giving up newspapering, the only job he's known. Among others, his decision saddens Fat Thomas, the 350-lb. New York bookie, who has gone so legit since Breslin began writing...
...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
...pawn" of some reactionary forces at Harvard, he really doesn't know what he's talking about and ought to hold his peace. And Mr. Howard's additional charge that my views have "undue weight" and are "accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard" is sheer figment of his imagination...