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Recent Examples of fictive
Tidy narratives of progress—always somewhat fictive, useful to journalists and publicists more than to consumers and artists—started to degrade.
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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
Set at the outbreak of World War I, this fictive tale of invading German forces wreaking havoc in the Belgian countryside depicts just one arena for violence in a conflict that would drag on for another four years.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024
But finally this fictive mystery doesn’t say much about homelessness or anything else, wasting its offbeat setting on a supernatural denouement that boasts two major twists.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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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
Set at the outbreak of World War I, this fictive tale of invading German forces wreaking havoc in the Belgian countryside depicts just one arena for violence in a conflict that would drag on for another four years.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024
But finally this fictive mystery doesn’t say much about homelessness or anything else, wasting its offbeat setting on a supernatural denouement that boasts two major twists.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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To me, the ending leaves as an open question whether Tóth has retreated to illusory safe ground or found a more hospitable home.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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In many ways, her comical, woozy dream scenes are archetypal hallucinatory visions.—
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
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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Income taxes, nonexistent seventeen years before, now at the minimum 25 percent at the top and as of eighteen months past Smoot Hawley, 63 percent.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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And Delta might not want to rush to deploy too many AI features anyway, considering such past airline-AI mishaps as a Canadian court requiring Air Canada to honor a fare-reimbursement promise that its support chatbot offered after citing a nonexistent policy.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Franklin County and River Valley Coalition recently accused officials of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and a division of the building authority of being deceptive and called for an investigation.—
Alex Golden,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Penelope in the Odyssey says that dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive, while those that pass through the gate of horn are real.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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As the knife drew closer, Jennings, whose back was to the camera, turned around and leapt back in feigned terror.—
Marco Rubio,
Newsweek,
1 Nov. 2024
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If responding to questions with feigned but believable thoughtfulness was all that mattered, Lindsey Graham would be President.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2024
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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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