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Recent Examples of fictive
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
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Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
So being connected, even this fictive version of reading the New York Times every day, that was part of that.
—Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
But that doesn’t mean all the practices, people and places depicted in the poem are fully fictive.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
So being connected, even this fictive version of reading the New York Times every day, that was part of that.
—Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
But that doesn’t mean all the practices, people and places depicted in the poem are fully fictive.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Despite the book’s suggestive title, the landscape is anything but illusory for Abbott, who grew up in Grosse Pointe and spent the first 18 years of her life there.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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Wells’s attempt to hold the two in balance relied on a division between art and politics, but that division is entirely illusory.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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But the sound and lighting effects get rather heavy-handed during Josh’s hallucinatory meltdowns.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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The sequence looks positively hallucinatory, illuminated by night stars and aurora borealis streaks in the sky above.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
Adjective
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Royal experts told Fox News Digital that Harry’s relationship with William is nonexistent.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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The confidence and connectivity that overwhelmed Indiana in Game 5 were nonexistent Thursday night.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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In the suit, filed Friday, Newsom says that Fox News had used deceptive edits to claim that the governor had lied in saying that Trump had not called him about deploying National Guard troops during the L.A. protests.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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Florida is leading the way in what can become a national movement to crack down on hospitals’ deceptive and unfair billing practices.—
Cynthia A. Fisher,
Sun Sentinel,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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When Devon essentially goes undercover as a Michaela disciple to keep an eye on Simone, Fahy gets to embody a friction between her character’s actual and feigned personalities that’s delightful to watch.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
22 May 2025
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Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
2 Apr. 2025
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