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mirage

A mirage optical phenomenon which causes distant objects to appear at a different location than they really are.

mirage

something illusory and unattainable an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

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Simple sentences

A mirage sometimes shows up in Toyama Bay.
A mirage is said to be an illusion.
The water on the road was just a mirage.

Movie subtitles

If that's only a mirage coming, I'm gonna look like you in a few days.
This must be a mirage.
I thought it was a mirage, but it's not. It's still there.
But before I could really grab it and throw it down on paper. the drinks would wear off and everything would be gone. like a mirage.
They do not suffer from the thirst of passion or stagger blindly towards some mirage of lost love.
You are a mirage, a hallucination, a phantasm.
It must be a mirage.
We're going to pay that mirage a little visit.
The African mirage is harmful.
Both times it turned out to be a mirage.
A tricky projection akin to the common desert mirage.
If that ship was a mirage, where's the real one?
That tricky mirage projector must be behind this plate.
A mirage.
You know what a mirage is, don't you?
A mirage is something that you see that isn't there or something that is there, but you can't see it.
A mirage is something you see that isn't there.
That's a mirage.
All right, I'll prove to you that there is such a thing as a mirage.
It's a mirage.
A mirage?
I'm pretending it's a mirage.
Do you want to die chasing a mirage?
Then pray it isn't a mirage.
Mirage nothing.
Aren't you the mirage, toots?
She was a mirage.
However - in your memory which of the two gives the most beautiful mirage. the woman or the child?
I can't imagine a mirage ever disturbing those mathematically perfect brain waves of yours.
I don't want to die because of a dream, a mirage.
It was a mirage.
Captain, it was a mirage.
Just like a mirage.
It could be a mirage.
It's just a mirage.
The mirage, the dream, has become a reality. A woman is here.
All the rest is now a mirage.

News and current affairs

The pre-crisis profits of banks - one-third of all corporate profits - appear to have been a mirage.
The idea that either side can crush the other and declare victory has proven to be a seductive and dangerous mirage, leaving behind only a trail of blood and hate.
Although Egyptian reconnaissance aircraft had flown near Dimona in 1965 and 1967 without incident, during the 1967 war, Israel shot down one of its own Mirage jet fighters when it strayed over the facility.
Above all, the single resolution mechanism is a mirage, because national governments retain a veto over closing down any bank.
Of course, this was a mirage: by issuing such options shareholder value was diluted.
The supposed transfer of risk would turn out to have been a mirage.
This is mostly a mirage - large-scale wind power will not work anytime soon without subsidies.
The US, inebriated by victory, saw in the triumph over the Soviet bloc another sign of its exceptionalism, and found itself taken in by the mirage that its Cold War success was itself a strategy.
Why then, should sub-Saharan black Africans keep alive the mirage of a union with the North African countries?
The idea that structural and labor-market reforms can deliver quick growth is nothing but a mirage.
This is a mirage, Jacques says.

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