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Recent Examples of fictive
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.
—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
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
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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.
—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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Yet these successes were at best partial, and perhaps illusory.—
JENNIFER KAVANAGH,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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Everyone has their own analogy to describe Labour’s illusory power.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The new film tries to connect its phantasmagorical elements to regular middle-class lives, but the attempt serves both aspects poorly.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Tipping takes the notion of a spiral in football and runs with it, creating some of the film’s most hallucinatory effects in the process.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 Sep. 2025
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Campaigns can be hallucinatory affairs, and this one was full of bizarre moments.—
Chris Megerian,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 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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Worries about missing the playoffs are all but nonexistent, regardless of who’s in net.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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That information drips out in the regular media but is almost nonexistent on social media.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Specifically, the four customers argued that Hershey's violated Florida Deceptive And Unfair Trade Practices Act, which is designed to protect Floridians from unfair competition, deceptive acts and unethical practices.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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In recent years, users have increasingly been taking to court to challenge allegedly deceptive practices by Amazon.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.—
Judy Kurtz,
The Hill,
9 Sep. 2025
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You are supposed to participate in a pantomime of feigned shock and delayed recognition.—
Bluesky Social,
Bluesky Social,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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So many women who have gotten famous on Bravo did so by being mean, delusional, or mean and delusional, give or take a drinking problem.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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Like, our delusional friend Hope is so positive.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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