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Recent Examples of nondocumentary
The seventh nondocumentary feature by Wright made its way to theaters on October 29, after having been delayed twice by distributor Focus Features over pandemic concerns.
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nondocumentary
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Gemmill echoed the sentiment, emphasizing that the priority is maintaining the realism of the show, which centers on a fictional hospital in Pittsburgh.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Apr. 2026
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Then again, an especially good fictional song can come to feel more real than its story of origin.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Investigators allege Gonzalez wrote checks to herself from HOA accounts over an extended period and concealed the thefts by creating fictitious invoices and false ledger entries.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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One requires election records to be maintained for 22 months, while the other prohibits procuring, casting or tabulating false, fictitious or fraudulent ballots.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The hypothetical study of how humans and extraterrestrials might communicate is a real scientific field, called xenolinguistics, that includes researchers from linguistics, animal communication, and anthropology.—
Tara Haelle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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Yet, primordial black holes remain frustratingly hypothetical despite being first proposed by Stephen Hawking in the 1970s.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The closest nonhistorical portrayals to Washington’s role among recent winners are probably Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club and Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart.—
Jeremy Harriot,
The Root,
3 Mar. 2018
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To Coimbra, some key questions involved amalgamating real-life characters into fictionalized ones while still honoring victims and survivors, as well as faithfully recreating the look and feel of the time.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2026
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This book gives a fictionalized account of how a plucky young boy brought that iconic tradition into existence during the 1930s.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, according to the researchers, their technique works even when there is no perfect theoretical model of the material, and the sample is not pure (which is often the case in real-world materials).—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2026
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This week, that scenario started to feel less theoretical.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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Without that information, conclusions about feasibility are at best speculative.—
Charles Rilli,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
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When speculative trades piled in, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia were forced to abandon their currency pegs, triggering cascading defaults and deep economic contractions that were worsened by International Monetary Fund austerity programs.—
Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2026
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In the 21st century, however, historians mistook the code word for a code name and gave the pretexts their unhistorical handle.—
Ken Hughes,
The Conversation,
24 Nov. 2025
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Well, certainly the most unhistorical.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Aug. 2022
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“Nondocumentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nondocumentary. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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