as in fantasy
something that is the product of the imagination
most stories about famous outlaws of the Old West are fictions that have little or nothing to do with fact
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Recent Examples of fiction
Because the line between fiction and reality has always been thin.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
The case spotlights the risks of the largely unregulated AI chatbot industry and its potential threat to impressionable young people in blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In the pulsating world of thriller fiction, pacing is the silent conductor, orchestrating a symphony of tension and release that keeps readers perched on the edge of their seats.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
They were struck by how Butler’s tale seemed to surpass fiction into reality.
—Stacie Stukin, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
The case spotlights the risks of the largely unregulated AI chatbot industry and its potential threat to impressionable young people in blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
In the pulsating world of thriller fiction, pacing is the silent conductor, orchestrating a symphony of tension and release that keeps readers perched on the edge of their seats.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
They were struck by how Butler’s tale seemed to surpass fiction into reality.
—Stacie Stukin, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
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What that means is two-fold: a series that captures Game of Thrones’s extensive, fantasy world-building and the drama of political succession and a show dropping on HBO’s premier Sunday night spot that everyone wants to talk about the morning after.Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
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The fantasy thriller is from Emmy winner Lucia Puenzo.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Co-created by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, Landman is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs.Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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What election narratives are foreign actors pushing? Expect false tales of voters tampering with mail-in ballots, non-citizens casting ballots and hacks of election infrastructure in social media posts.Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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This story originally published on businessden.com.Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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The Mann who began writing the novel was an aristocrat of art, hostile to democracy—a reactionary aesthete.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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But how did novels like Liu’s overcome the disreputable status of pulp fiction and gain an international reputation as serious literature?H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
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More than 50% of the car required all new fabrication and rework.New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Witches Road Is An Urban Legend The major plot twist of the finale is that the Witches Road is a complete fabrication by Agatha, inadvertently manifested into reality by Billy (Joe Locke).Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In addition to Catherine Avery’s cancer and Jo Wilson’s PTSD, the series also makes the case that the messy exit of original cast member Justin Chambers got a dose of Finch’s fables as well.Hunter Ingram, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
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Investigating these unverifiable fables about aliens should be scrapped as a fool’s errand for AARO, which earlier this year released a historical review demolishing this long-running conspiracy theory.Luis Cayetano Simmari, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
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Additionally, the new invention is stable in water and can withstand temperatures of up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (850 degrees Celsius).Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Those matches essentially establish a direct link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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And even her closest confidantes reveal themselves as figments of her imagination at the most vulnerable possible moments.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
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An imaginary friend is one thing for a child and quite another for a 38-year-old man who drinks excessively with this figment every night.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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