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Recent Examples of fictive
Another, almost entirely fictive identity would afford him freedom and adulation.
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David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for fictive
David Treuer,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
By creating space for these histories in her fictive realm, Pritam strove to remember those on the periphery.
—
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
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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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Both for the islanders and for us, the summer shimmers with a hallucinatory mixture of languor and emotional speed, as summers do in childhood.
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Such hallucinatory citations are, according to judges and lawyers, troubling at a variety of levels, including for their threat to the integrity of the judicial system.
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On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, Americans should be deeply concerned by the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative.
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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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The jurors mostly determine the truth except when there is no truth, as with the nonexistent hot-dog contest or gift competition.
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Violent crime is virtually nonexistent in Monaco, a city state located on the Mediterranean Sea, home to roughly 40,000 people and known as a playground for the wealthy.
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Shadow fleet vessels disguise their identity and purpose through a broad range of deceptive activities, including spoofing their locations and destinations.
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The complaint alleged deceptive advertising and other misconduct.
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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 4 Jul. 2026.
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