as in fantasies
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 fictions
Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
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Ivan Kreilkamp,
JSTOR Daily,
10 June 2026
The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
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Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
The curiosity, sensitivity, and imagination of children will always demand new and ambitious fictions.
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Mac Barnett,
Longreads,
5 May 2026
Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up.
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Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
Even if negative themes do bring money in, scientists need to be guided by fact, not convenient fictions.
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John L. Gittleman,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2026
Corporations are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created, registering with the state.
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Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
But these have always been legal fictions.
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Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Ivan Kreilkamp,
JSTOR Daily,
10 June 2026
The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
The curiosity, sensitivity, and imagination of children will always demand new and ambitious fictions.
—
Mac Barnett,
Longreads,
5 May 2026
Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up.
—
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
Even if negative themes do bring money in, scientists need to be guided by fact, not convenient fictions.
—
John L. Gittleman,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2026
Corporations are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created, registering with the state.
—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
But these have always been legal fictions.
—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictions
Noun
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Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
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Iraq was losing the war that would create the state of Israel, a humiliation that challenged fantasies of Arab unity and conquest.
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Daily tales of war and violence around the world made one want to clench one’s fists, grit one’s teeth, and to shout out in a paean of outraged hysteria.
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Hopefully, these three will be among the final cautionary tales of poor draft decisions.
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Along the way, the system will also share local stories tied to each place.
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight.
Noun
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The Wright brothers launched their airplane factory at a time when Dayton had established itself as one of the world's most innovative cities, according to Lockhart, who noted that Dayton was the home of several world-changing inventions at the time.
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Creativity gives rise to technological progress and transformative inventions, which provide a new driving force for the economy and a focal point for investors.
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The novel has a freewheeling spirit that recalls Italo Calvino’s space fables in Cosmicomics.
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The collection spans centuries of storytelling in multiple genres, from migratory fairytales with kings and princesses to legends of ghosts and the Devil to fables with talking animals.
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While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
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Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down.
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Heather Rose is the Australian author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love published this month by Algonquin.
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Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.
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That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.
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Boone is relentlessly hounded by figments of his guilty memory, by other ghosts, and by his daughter—all of whom emphasize his nefarious role in delaying action to combat climate change.
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“Fictions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictions. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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