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Recent Examples of ignis fatuus
Several sources say ignis fatuus, a spark of swamp gas, is the likely cause of the strange light.
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Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
The story also helped explain ignis fatuus, a natural phenomenon that occurs in marshlands and bogs—such as those in Ireland’s countryside—producing flickering lights as gases from decomposing organic matter combust.
—National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
The story also helped explain ignis fatuus, a natural phenomenon that occurs in marshlands and bogs—such as those in Ireland’s countryside—producing flickering lights as gases from decomposing organic matter combust.
—National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ignis fatuus
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Those numbers, though, may be a pipe dream for many people.Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
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Working for your pipe dreams in unconventional ways might spare you the need to open your wallet.Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2024
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For this demographic, Detroit was once a mirage, an urban escape from an exploitive agricultural lifestyle enshrouded in trauma and grief.Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
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Narrowly beating a rebuilding Michigan team 20-15 at home Saturday, after nearly blowing a 14-point lead and holding on when the Wolverines’ late 2-point conversion attempt failed, was the first inkling that Indiana might be a mirage.Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024
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And sure enough, the mouse that grew from that embryo was a chimera, displaying these traits along with those of the original embryo donor.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 28 Nov. 2024
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The record’s new-wave ditties are an amalgamation of strange but immediately identifiable components, chimeras of ’60s pop à la Lesley Gore and the frenzied shred of a skateboarding compilation.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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With scary precision, the playwright captures the delusion that roots itself in families who use faith to control.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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Corcoran is under the paranoid delusion that prison guards are torturing him with sound waves.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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Four centuries after Galileo, the United States has become an epicenter of unreality.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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Through its official media, ISIS stoked support around the world for its vivid unreality—the Salafi jihadist utopia—and presented a comprehensive and exactingly consistent picture of what life there was supposedly like.Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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Bohemian daydream Boho’s been back for almost a year now, but spring’s best runways have taken the aesthetic in its dreamiest direction yet.Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
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The series was often praised for its cutaway sequences tied to the daydreams of Braff’s character, J.D., with Braff also serving as the series’ narrator.Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Part of the show’s magic is that performers can literally be anybody or anything and the listener completes the illusion with their mind’s eye.Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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The illusion of the regime's power was as important to Assad as Saydnaya prison, as the multiple branches of the intelligence services, military brigades and their brutal physical force.James Longman, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Ignis fatuus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignis%20fatuus. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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