fictions

plural of fiction

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Recent Examples of fictions The End, the past year has seen a surge in speculative fictions about super-rich characters who hunker down in expensive isolation as the world burns. Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025 It is rooted in the dehumanizing language and convenient fictions that precede acts of violence. Brad Braxton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025 Paranoia-inducing fictions like Wells’s aside, the public came to view Martians not as monsters but as representatives of a higher civilization—as angels, even, at a time when new science was shaking old religious certainties. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025 Andor hates him on sight, which only intensifies when Berend smacks around his mother and tears up the apartment looking for proof that Klára has deceived the boy with idealized fictions about his origins. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 For someone who loves storytelling—fictions that are meant to pass as truth (or at least, emotionally truthful)—a film or TV set is a hypnotic, addictive place to be. Jane Ciabattari august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictions
Noun
  • One of them was Segar, his former coworker, who was in the middle of his workday and didn’t have the bandwidth to engage with Jon’s fantasies about a cataclysmic event.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Likewise, be careful about major purchases, because an element of confusion, along with possible deceit (including fantasies of grandeur), might cloud your thinking.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ever since American Horror Story debuted on FX in 2011, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s anthology series has captivated audiences with its chilling tales, twisted characters, and unique format.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
  • What is perhaps surprising is that some parents and soon-to-be parents cling so tightly to old wives tales in the face of so much technological advancement.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
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    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That foundation set the stage for one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic inventions—the FitBit.
    Marisa McMillan, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In his most delirious inventions there’s something that at the same time is so simple, so little bird, and so gin rummy.
    Julio Cortázar, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And like the previous two, including an Emmy Award-winning 2022 series about Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the story of Ed Gein has a number of exaggerations and fabrications over its eight episodes.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Additionally, the hickory stripe denim used in the collection has a lighter, smoother weight than modern stiffer fabrications.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gossip fed the frenzy of the Salem Witch Trials and has been the subtext of one too many fables where mischief masks moral rot.
    Oriel FeldmanHall, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Its instructions are vague, its arguments belabored and its absurdist fables too plentiful.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Are the protagonist’s past lives real, or just figments of his psychosis?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 2024 European Parliament elections strengthened far-right blocs and pushed the centre-right toward diluting elements of the Green Deal, reframing climate rules as sovereignty or competitiveness threats and amplifying cost-of-living and farmer-protest narratives.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • All are women, trans, or nonbinary creators developing feature films that place LGBTQ+ narratives at the center rather than the margins.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Fictions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictions. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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