as in factual
restricted to or based on fact
a historical novel that tells the story of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps through the eyes of a young boy
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Recent Examples of historical
Bumila went to another level even for himself and delivered a historical performance for the Shamrocks in 5-1 win over Moses Brown.
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Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
His historical range is wide and sometimes startling.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 May 2026
Life insurers, meanwhile, have maintained leverage in the top quartile of their historical distribution, while their exposure to non-traditional liabilities has continued to grow.
—Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The collaboration marks a formal extension of Serre’s ongoing engagement with historical references and institutional imagery.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
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Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
His historical range is wide and sometimes startling.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 May 2026
Life insurers, meanwhile, have maintained leverage in the top quartile of their historical distribution, while their exposure to non-traditional liabilities has continued to grow.
—Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
The collaboration marks a formal extension of Serre’s ongoing engagement with historical references and institutional imagery.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for historical
Adjective
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This story has been updated to correct a factual error.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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Among Friday’s industry crowd were BBC chief content officer Kate Phillips; BBC Studios CEO Tom Fussell; Zai Bennett, CEO of BBC Studios Global Content; and Kate Ward, managing director, factual at BBC Studios.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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Teaming up with Lucian to find the cure, Jim goes on an adventure through the city that brings him up close with all the tribes Jim would usually shun, from submissives in pup masks to shady but protective drag queens to the bears — amusingly depicted here as literal bears.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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And the Not Fair League made that literal.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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Think Deadliest Catch and its quasi-documentary format or, more recently, Love on the Spectrum.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 May 2026
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Ultimately, the team’s work resulted in uncovering documentary evidence of more than 1,000 incidents of ghost voting, forgery and other forms of vote fraud.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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This is true only in the narrowest sense.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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That was certainly true on Monday, as Lamont signed a new 124-page labor bill into law.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Pee-Wee as Himself, the 2025 Emmy award winner for best documentary or nonfictional special, is also among the nominees.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
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That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Historical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/historical. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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