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Recent Examples of fictive
This is not so much an answer as a finger-fly-up-from-the-font sprinkle of the fictive water.
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Seamus Heaney, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2024
What to do when accountability has never felt more fictive?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
—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
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Seamus Heaney, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2024
What to do when accountability has never felt more fictive?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Then there are the books that are fictive, existing only within other books.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
Adjective
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Defenders of the policy point to waiver provisions as evidence of the new policy's flexibility, but closer examination reveals these waivers to be illusory.—
Carlos Del Toro,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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Ever since the end of World War II, a long parade of American presidents saw first the Soviet Union and then, after a brief and illusory interregnum, its successor Russia as a force to be wary of, at the very least.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 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 violent event flashes onstage in the manner of a traumatic memory, with Goodman’s Jesse writhing on Justin Huen’s impressionistic urban set as lighting and sound designer Matt Richter underscores the hallucinatory nature of the assault with strobe effects.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
26 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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This is where one of the biggest challenges lay, extant garments are nonexistent and there are not a lot of surviving images from ancient times which show what people were wearing.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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His workload has been nonexistent for three and a half months.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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However, when adjusted for inflation, real prices in Turkey have dropped by 10.4 percent, illustrating how price growth can be deceptive without factoring in inflation.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2025
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Had these assessments been conducted, issues like algorithmic bias, content manipulation and deceptive AI practices would have been flagged before litigators intervened.—
Patrick Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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