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Recent Examples of fictive
By creating space for these histories in her fictive realm, Pritam strove to remember those on the periphery.
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JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
The history bestows legitimacy, which is destabilized because so much of the history is fictive.
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Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Populism ignores very real and differentiated social problems and cuts across them with a fictive target, a target that simultaneously satisfies all, and none, of these problems.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
The curator, Reid Byers, presents 100 books — unfinished, fictive (books existing in other novels and dramas) and lost — painstakingly created and recreated.
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New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
The history bestows legitimacy, which is destabilized because so much of the history is fictive.
—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Populism ignores very real and differentiated social problems and cuts across them with a fictive target, a target that simultaneously satisfies all, and none, of these problems.
—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
The curator, Reid Byers, presents 100 books — unfinished, fictive (books existing in other novels and dramas) and lost — painstakingly created and recreated.
—
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Conversations need grounding as intuitive Moon in your 3rd House of Communication opposes illusory Neptune in your 9th House of Travel and Learning, so facts and visions compete.
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That is, real, not merely illusory, measures, so that the allure to breach peace for imagined gains is overshadowed.
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Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War.
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Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.
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Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity.
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What results is a hallucinatory exploration of power, control, desire, and — that hottest of fascinated feelings right now — obsession.
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So is the neighbor who was pressured by police to corroborate a concocted story.
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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.
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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.
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His ability to wheel and deal seems to be as nonexistent as his victory.
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Brand loyalty is virtually nonexistent.
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Despite criticism over opaque and deceptive practices, prediction markets’ election favorites won most of the time, a Washington Post analysis found; more liquid in betting markets improves their accuracy, economists told CNN, but could carry negative social costs.
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This is the essence of GPS spoofing, in which an attacker floods a GPS receiver with deceptive signals.
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During her feigned pregnancy, Stephanie Ott, one of Griffin’s friends who had grown suspicious of Parker, called the clinic to ask about her.
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ThinkTechAct’s founder, Mahad Ibrahim, pleaded guilty to defrauding the free food reimbursement system through his feigned nonprofit group as part of the Feeding Our Future network.
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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