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
Monkey King is a classic of Chinese fiction: a high-spirited tale loaded with humor and timeless characters.
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Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
The platform hosts literary fiction writers like George Saunders alongside genre novelists, debut authors and even publishing’s ultimate commercial titan, James Patterson.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
From Paper to Protocol Today’s trade infrastructure is a patchwork of legal fictions and trust intermediaries - letters of credit, bills of lading, third-party guarantees - many of which exist solely to simulate trust.
—Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
On his life as a moviegoer So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films.
—Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
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Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
The platform hosts literary fiction writers like George Saunders alongside genre novelists, debut authors and even publishing’s ultimate commercial titan, James Patterson.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
From Paper to Protocol Today’s trade infrastructure is a patchwork of legal fictions and trust intermediaries - letters of credit, bills of lading, third-party guarantees - many of which exist solely to simulate trust.
—Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
On his life as a moviegoer So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films.
—Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for fiction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
Noun
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Yet now that substantial success seems to have given birth to a self-destructive fantasy.—
Benjamin Mazer,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2025
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So what better time than now to answer some VERY IMPORTANT fantasy football questions?—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Where Bailey lands is probably going to tell the tale of his career.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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The page lists half a dozen directorial projects Ford is attached to, including ferry disaster tragedy Wahine out of New Zealand, fantasy tale The King of Light – The Order of the Dark Gods, and comedy Food Fight.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Heading into mandatory minicamp, the biggest story for the Commanders was a player who was not on the field.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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And maybe the next Kerouac will write a novel on their laptop as an autonomous car carries them across the continent.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
22 June 2025
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In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane novel Audition, recently released in the United States, space is both the dystopian place where humanity’s worst impulses flourish and a site of uncharted possibility where humans can become something entirely new.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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Back in November 2019, the pair signed on to develop the vacant six-acre site of a former steel fabrication plant at the intersection of State Road 50 and 12th Street in Clermont.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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The collection was smart, sophisticated and carried an effortless attitude through the most luxurious fabrications.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
23 June 2025
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Image In the American fable, Indigenous people are cast as side characters to innocent explorers fulfilling Manifest Destiny.—
Petala Ironcloud,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The film, which won the jury prize at the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film festival, is a hilarious fable about trying to lead a creative life and failing miserably at making ends meet.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
24 May 2025
Noun
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The invention of railway travel also necessitated the establishment of a unified time zone, which was provided by the Royal Observatory and adopted by the railway companies.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
22 June 2025
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When the disaster response price tag over the last half century is approaching 10% of the national debt, necessity should motivate invention of proactive infrastructure that reduces this cost.—
John Sabo,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.—
Margy Rochlin,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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But Annabelle is also haunted by terrifying dreams — ones where her family are affected — and which Annabelle soon realizes aren’t just figments of her imagination, but premonitions of what’s to come.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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