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Example sentences for: mirage

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The Washington Post entreats Clinton to stand firm, warning readers not to believe in "an accounting mirage to finance a misshapen tax cut that the country can't afford."
the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.
Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, employs a full-time tele-survey staff that polls constituents on numerous political issues.
As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage.
Mirage has hired a probation officer to monitor the ex-inmates and to help co-workers deal with discomfort--a big problem, apparently.