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
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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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The revelation of Izzy and Ferd’s son is sketchy; a suicide tale lacks a set-up or point; intriguing female bonds are underwritten; and all-too-familiar tropes associated with spousal violence weaken the work.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 June 2025
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But Stone saw no such break, his crack and coke habits held up as cautionary tales.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
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Now managed by the National Trust, the estate is open to the public, allowing visitors to step inside and experience firsthand the setting of one of literature’s most enduring love stories.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
10 June 2025
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Suffering through bad relationships to finally find the ideal romantic partner is a universal story that’s understood by men and women of every age, and of every generation.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
10 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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Book, of the Homeless Trust, flatly rejected suggestions that the hostel was a security concern, calling them a political fabrication.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
10 June 2025
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The bill, which passed out of the Senate unanimously, would instruct the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt training programs for best practices for stone fabrication workers and develop a certification process with safety and training standards.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
9 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 body-hugging dress—made of intersecting strips or panels resembling bandages—first debuted on the runway in 1992, after its invention in the 1980s by French designer Hervé Léger.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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His patent pending invention was inspired by helping his uncle A CT drive-in theater opening every night for summer with latest films, double features A CT drive-in theater opening every night for summer with latest films, double features Upgrades planned on Interstate 84 in CT city.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2025
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The bird, with its menacing stance, is surely a figment of Aisha’s imagination.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
22 May 2025
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And they’re being chalked up to figments of a patient’s hallucination!—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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