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Recent Examples of fictive
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.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
Relative or fictive caregivers can also apply to the Cabinet of Health and Family Services to become foster parents for a child removed from a home.
—Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
This is not so much an answer as a finger-fly-up-from-the-font sprinkle of the fictive water.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
Everyone was invited, but Beyoncé seemed to find personal liberation — stretching the bounds of voice as instrument, experimenting with production — in that fictive communion.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
Relative or fictive caregivers can also apply to the Cabinet of Health and Family Services to become foster parents for a child removed from a home.
—Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2024
This is not so much an answer as a finger-fly-up-from-the-font sprinkle of the fictive water.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
Everyone was invited, but Beyoncé seemed to find personal liberation — stretching the bounds of voice as instrument, experimenting with production — in that fictive communion.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictive
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Matt Angle, a Texas Democratic operative active in several congressional campaigns and other races dating back more than three decades, said much of the Republican gains in South Texas are illusory.John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Feb. 2024
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The Sun in your 1st House of the Self is shying away from illusory Neptune in your 7th House of Interdependence, which can create all sorts of confusion with the important people in your life.Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2024
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In the hallucinatory new scenes, the connection between Lee and Allerton goes to places the earthbound book could never take it.Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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My insomnia and the strange sky at dawn melded together to create a hallucinatory experience: the lights were moving, disappearing, ebbing, flowing.Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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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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There’s an almost poetic parallel between how the creators of the adaptation and García Márquez discovered this nonexistent town—the former through journeys across Colombia, the latter through a collection of stories, tales, and notes.Fernanda Pérez Sánchez, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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Its nonexistent gender pay gap, high score from the Human Rights Campaign and relatively low employee turnover were notable.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to numerous compounding sellers, and both companies have filed lawsuits against numerous compounding pharmacies, alleging trademark infringement and deceptive marketing.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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Yes, but: Brandi Tuck, executive director of the nonprofit Path Home, has been working with homeless families for nearly two decades and says those numbers are likely deceptive undercounts.Kale Williams, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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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 21 Dec. 2024.
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