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mirage::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | optical illusion |
| Has types | fata morgana |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | misconception |
Examples of mirage
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Was last season's .248 average a mirage or an indication of a player in decline?
From the stltoday.com
Others, though, seem more like a mirage coming off the road on a hot summer day.
From the delawareonline.com
Other NYU economists worry the Office of Financial Research is chasing a mirage.
From the washingtonpost.com
Similarly, Ralph Lauren's world is like a mirage that you can never quite reach.
From the time.com
Ask yourself whether this is another December mirage or something to believe in.
From the latimes.com
Plus, Hillary Clinton warns the Arab spring may melt into a mirage in the desert.
From the abcnews.go.com
Mirage was developed as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed Green TV scheme.
From the gazettelive.co.uk
It's the determinedly ultra-modern aspects of Masdar that prove to be a mirage.
From the guardian.co.uk
Legislative budget writers, though, know that the big cushion is mostly a mirage.
From the dallasnews.com
- An optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
- Something illusory and unattainable
- A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". ...
- Mirage is a 1965 thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a script by Peter Stone (based on a book by Howard Fast), starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, and Kevin McCarthy, and released by Universal Pictures.
- Mirage (Espejismo) is a 1972 Peruvian drama film directed by Armando Robles Godoy. Robles Godoy wrote the screenplay together with Bernardo Batievsky. It is the only Peruvian film to date to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
- Mirage (Macedonian: u0418u043Bu0443u0437u0438u0458u0430; transliterated Iluzija) is a 2004 Macedonian drama film starring Vlado Jovanovski, Mustafa Nadareviu0107, Nikola u0110uriu010Dko, and Dejan Au0107imoviu0107, with Marko Kovau010Deviu0107 debuting in its lead role. It was directed by Svetozar Ristovski, who co-wrote the film with Grace Lea Troje...
- Mirage is the name of a series of delta-winged fighters and bombers that have been produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, flown by the French Air Force, and widely exported to foreign counties.
- TVP Animation (also known as TVPaint, Mirage and Aura) is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement (France).
- Mirage is the fourth studio album album by Dutch trance producer and DJ Armin van Buuren, it was released on September 10, 2010. It was preceded by the release of the lead single, "Full Focus" on June 24, 2010. ...
