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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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Elegant yet illusory, the pearls become armor for a woman determined to turn artifice into art.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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Man, woman, dog—their illusory life was over.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Parker Finn's directorial debut not only lives up to the hype but also delivers a campy and absurd exploration of the transference of generational trauma — pulling off some impressive jump scares and one hell of a phantasmagorical ending.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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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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Sam Levinson’s hallucinatory high school drama Euphoria was renewed for a third season back in 2022, though its future remained uncertain for some time.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2025
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Harwicz’s novels are more hallucinatory than supernatural—but a more provocative distinction between her books and others in this semi-subgenre is that, for her characters, motherhood does not cause animal rage and instability so much as instantiate them.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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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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The cadre of help most wealthy people surround themselves with was nonexistent.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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With two conference losses, LSU's margin for error is nonexistent.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In New Jersey, creating or sharing deceptive AI media can lead to prison time and fines.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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But the first time around, producers relied on deceptive camera angles and some CGI to edit out her pregnancy belly.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There’s no feigned seriousness, no proclamations of honesty.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.—
Judy Kurtz,
The Hill,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sure, the park encompasses a massive 1,300 acres, but comparing this underdeveloped pipedream to the nation’s pre-eminent public parks is delusional.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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But for a few unlucky people, chatbots powered by the technology have become a gaslighting, delusional menace.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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