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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
Events remain piercingly actual and threatening in their effects on real people, while also being duplicated in a fictive system that shows and spoofs them at the same time.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 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
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Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Events remain piercingly actual and threatening in their effects on real people, while also being duplicated in a fictive system that shows and spoofs them at the same time.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Perhaps nothing demonstrates the illusory pursuit of the truth like the story of Ikilimu Bilbis, the traveler who arrived in the ancient city of Timbuktu to glimpse the Book of Absolute Truth, a tome that contained the answer to every question in the universe.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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Instead of an illusory peace, Washington should help Ukraine determine the rules of engagement with Russia, and through these rules, the war could gradually be minimized.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Wander through hallucinatory landscapes in a genre-defying melding of video games, short film, and generative art.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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The people who have been to one of these Bowery Ballroom shows talk about it in even more surreal, almost hallucinatory terms.—
Nick Robins-Early,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 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
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Well-structured and fluent, the paper includes several Bible verses that catch her attention — yet turn out to be nonexistent.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Here, founders say, fear of political retribution or public cancellation is nonexistent.—
Ira Porter,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Feb. 2025
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False Hope And Fake Assurances Ransomware operators also exploit victims with false assurances, creating a deceptive sense of hope that there is a way to resolve the situation.—
Stu Sjouwerman,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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That’s the film’s greatest surprise, its secret deceptive pitch.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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Fey and Poehler interrupted the host’s monologue, much to his (feigned) surprise, and critiqued his joke telling.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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Behind the feigned admiration lurks a depth charge of judgement or criticism.—
John Bowe, Contributor,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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