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
Education helps young people learn to reason, to question, to distinguish fact from fiction.
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Randi Weingarten, Fortune, 6 May 2026
In true Austen fashion, this work of lightly speculative fiction is frothy and fun, but also deeply invested in digging into the real price of being a woman in Regency-era England.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
The second feature project is the drama Nera, the feature fiction debut of director Ivana Vogrinc Vidali and screenwriter Darja Miková.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Lalami discussed the uptick in interest in dystopian fiction in a 2025 interview with PEOPLE.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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Randi Weingarten, Fortune, 6 May 2026
In true Austen fashion, this work of lightly speculative fiction is frothy and fun, but also deeply invested in digging into the real price of being a woman in Regency-era England.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
The second feature project is the drama Nera, the feature fiction debut of director Ivana Vogrinc Vidali and screenwriter Darja Miková.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Lalami discussed the uptick in interest in dystopian fiction in a 2025 interview with PEOPLE.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
Noun
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Similar to 2023-2024, realistic/contemporary and dystopia/sci-fi/fantasy remain the dominant genres banned in the 2024-2025 school year.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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My exterior gender and interior one were out of alignment, and every attempt to sync them—with corresponding clothes, a rich fantasy life, and standing up over the toilet bowl to pee, messily—ultimately failed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Noun
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The most obvious answer was that the story, on a deeper level, needed to be timeless, a tale of a desperate person facing moral dilemmas of increasing extremity while trying to hold fast to their values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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The children participated in Disney+'s 2025 documentary Lost in the Jungle, which recounted their tale of survival, per The New York Times.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Made in response to a difficult breakup, the work alludes to two lovers parting ways, but also to Pau’s memories of isolation as a severely asthmatic child in a notoriously polluted city, lying in bed staring at the wall and inventing stories to distract herself from the difficulty of breathing.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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This may explain why Suzanna’s mother is a somewhat indistinct presence in the novel (at least compared with fierce Sylvie)—patient, even serene behind bars, more eager to talk about her daughter’s future than about her own future, let alone her troubled past.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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That incisive clarity has had an unintended side effect on the novel’s film and TV legacy ever since.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
Noun
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My fabrication background spans machining, CNC programming, welding, and brazing.—
Michael Lydick,
PC Magazine,
2 May 2026
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The report also considers which shades best complement the drapey, lightweight fabrications gaining traction in the market.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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On Friday, April 10, when those winged sprites took to the War Memorial Opera House stage for a seven-performance run, the whole tartan-and-gossamer fable felt more alive than ever.—
Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Apr. 2026
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Access to the polls has never been adequate across the board, but the relative ease that many people have in participating in politics is a recent invention, based on the VRA.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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In fact, feathers are one of evolution’s cleverest inventions.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Fear is a figment of your imagination.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
26 Apr. 2026
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That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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