as in fantasy
something that is the product of the imagination
most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact
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Recent Examples of fiction
His writing covers technology, sustainability, geopolitics, and occasionally fiction.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Kokuho, which takes its title and its novelistic sweep from a recent work of fiction about the rarefied world of kabuki, begins in the mid-1960s and ends 50 years later.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Soyinka’s body of work includes more than 20 plays, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry collections and fiction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Kokuho, which takes its title and its novelistic sweep from a recent work of fiction about the rarefied world of kabuki, begins in the mid-1960s and ends 50 years later.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Soyinka’s body of work includes more than 20 plays, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry collections and fiction.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
Noun
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Much has been said about Bella's plain-Jane persona, but Stewart's earnest performance vivifies the character with a plucky yet lovesick duality that also grounds the film's lofty fantasy sequences.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Daily fantasy players can sign up with Sleeper promo code NEWSWEEKXL and lock in deposit bonuses.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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This funny tale of unlikely heroism can be enjoyed either as a read-aloud or as a confidence booster for newly independent readers.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The tale away from the playing field in recent years has been dizzying, one of soaring costs and debts, of quirks and chicanery unseen elsewhere.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The real story of the Elizabethan succession was altogether darker and more turbulent than Camden’s fiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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This is the web version of Fortune Tech, a daily newsletter breaking down the biggest players and stories shaping the future.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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The actor also stars in Netflix's My Life With the Walter Boys, which was adapted from Ali Novak's 2014 novel of the same name, originally published on Wattpad.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, his 1886 novel about a man who attempts to outflank the great error of his past, the English writer Thomas Hardy offers an interpersonal version of the geopolitical misconstructions Westad articulates.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Based on those findings, the team came up with two simple but powerful fixes that are both compatible with existing chip fabrication techniques.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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If your instinct, in other words, is to smooth things over with a bland fabrication, try dropping a tiny truth bomb instead.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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Will there be fables about musical sand dunes on Mars?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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There’s a whole other movie happening within Good Fortune‘s attempt to Aesop-fable its way to some moral about a modest life being a more fulfilling one even if you’re forced to live in your car.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Solomon, speaking from the sidelines of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit in Washington, cited the disruption caused by the invention in the late 1700s of the steam engine, which helped fuel the first industrial revolution.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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The author, a naturally playful fabulist, is furloughed here into invention and free play.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Soon, though, her world is turned upside down by an unsettling and persistent stalker — or just a figment of her own fracturing psyche.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Well, here’s something that won’t turn out to be a figment of your imagination: This is the year the curse of ‘Purple shirt guy’ is broken.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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