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
The 2025 honorees in fiction, Deana Carney and Walter Sam, provide us with stories from outside of the carceral state, while essayists Steven Perez and Luzalbert Hernandez offer up tales of life on the inside and the winding roads that lead to incarceration.
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Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
From these experiences, Austen must have concluded that throwing together a play was a ripe scenario for generating drama and tension between a close set of characters in her fiction.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
One discernible trend in the French stats was the concentration of sales among the biggest distributors, especially in the fiction category.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Gianfranco Rosi makes documentaries like no one else, which may explain why he’s received top awards at major festivals — Berlin’s Golden Bear for Fire at Sea, Venice’s Golden Lion for Sacro GRA — that are usually reserved for works of fiction.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
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Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
From these experiences, Austen must have concluded that throwing together a play was a ripe scenario for generating drama and tension between a close set of characters in her fiction.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
One discernible trend in the French stats was the concentration of sales among the biggest distributors, especially in the fiction category.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Gianfranco Rosi makes documentaries like no one else, which may explain why he’s received top awards at major festivals — Berlin’s Golden Bear for Fire at Sea, Venice’s Golden Lion for Sacro GRA — that are usually reserved for works of fiction.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
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These are not fantasies drummed up by the Left despite claims from Paxton and his most ardent supporters.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Cavill's film is a new version of the 1986 action-fantasy about an immortal Scottish swordsman's battle against another immortal warrior that starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Arias weaves a lovely tale of unrequited love that isn’t as unrequited in this sapphic, slow-burn romance that also touches on weighty topics, including divorce and grief.—
Mia Sosa,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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The tell-tale signs continued to add up.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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As a recent ProPublica story revealed, the promises of the H-2A visa program can be undermined by extreme abuses the workers suffer, mostly by labor contractors.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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The dream drive package includes private transfer to The Barn, Napa Valley Car Club's exclusive clubhouse, post-drive drinks and stories and return transfer.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The film, based on a novel by Karina Sainz Borgo, stars Natalia Reyes as a woman forced to grapple with the death of her mother against the backdrop of a crumbling city and a gang that has overtaken her apartment building.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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The controversy may also have inspired Colleen Hoover's upcoming novel, about a writer who retreats after online backlash about a film adaptation.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sheer fabrications have taken off this year, and these scarf-detail tops are an easy way to add interest and color all at once.—
Libby Page,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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This is reportedly the first quantum computer to be built using the standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chip fabrication process which is the same transistor technology used in conventional computers.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future and past.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Five centuries ago, a modest invention in a German workshop sparked the world’s first information revolution.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That sense of invention has defined his work.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Are the protagonist’s past lives real, or just figments of his psychosis?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Aug. 2025
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But the hunger crisis isn’t a figment of some propagandist’s imagination.—
Peter Jensen,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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