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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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Any thought of stability is illusory; no patch of molecules dances in isolation.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Preparation for the Next Life is being released in a moment of strife and fever-pitch arguments about the American Dream — its perils and illusory qualities especially for those who have migrated to a country so primed on their exploitation.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In Spark, the effect is hallucinatory, resulting in a type of hyperreality that, to me, constitutes an interesting representation of the intellectual experience of femininity.—
Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
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Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 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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As his final hearing approached, McShane’s learned that his chances of victory were almost nonexistent.—
Mario Ariza,
ProPublica,
15 Sep. 2025
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In recent years, the region has also been transformed by the opening of luxurious, design-centric hotels in places where high-end lodging has historically been nonexistent.—
Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, a group of states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton separately sued Google for anticompetitive and deceptive practices in its ad business.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Katie’s denial was once again found to be deceptive.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
12 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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This is absolutely delusional and nauseating.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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An expert called by Bixby's lawyers said the isolation of prison has only made his beliefs more delusional and that Bixby is stuck in his mindset.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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