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Recent Examples of fictive
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
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Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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
But that doesn’t mean all the practices, people and places depicted in the poem are fully fictive.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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
But that doesn’t mean all the practices, people and places depicted in the poem are fully fictive.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Naysayers insisted that increasing content costs would match the company’s rapid topline and subscriber growth, and profits would prove illusory.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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Romance can be illusory while Mercury joins Neptune.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Set in 1970's Vietnam, the film follows Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory upriver journey to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who his superiors believe has gone completely mad.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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If the Lubavitcher community had been struck by something on the scale of the Judeans’ loss of the Temple and their enslavement, what are now marginal, hallucinatory visions of the rebbe would almost certainly take on a more declarative, redemptive form.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 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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Their offense has been nonexistent this season, scoring a measly 2.95 runs per game, which ranks last in the AL and 29th in all of MLB, only ahead of the lowly Rockies.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Linear motivation for work is nonexistent while Mercury meets Neptune.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Battering ram with deceptive speed (4.51), but struggles catching the ball.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Key attributes: Explosive speed, deceptive footwork for separation.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Related Articles John Stossel: America needs more immigrants, not fewer DEI at universities will continue despite feigned compliance with Trump policies Debra J. Saunders: DOGE or runaway debt?—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
2 Apr. 2025
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The White Lotus as a whole is generally on the side of honesty over feigned politeness, but Laurie is going so nuclear, so quickly, that perhaps this will turn out to be an exception.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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