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Recent Examples of nonfactual
The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues.
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Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
Johnson habitually spouts a bold opinion or nonfactual declaration into the universe, only to have the universe voice its displeasure.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
And many of my mainstream-media colleagues can accept the majority of accountability for this tragic development through biased, nonfactual and incomplete reporting that has pretty much degenerated into talking heads venting their specific agendas.
—Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020
The cold calculated coercion of the executive order came after Twitter made the editorial decision to add factual information to balance the nonfactual statements of the President.
—Tom Wheeler, Time, 29 May 2020
But Trump rarely waits on facts before oozing out an unqualified, nonfactual take about a potential terror incident that has been allegedly carried out by a Muslim extremist.
—Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
Dear Amy: My half-sister has been posting inflammatory and nonfactual information on Facebook about her adoptive family.
—Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2017
Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
Johnson habitually spouts a bold opinion or nonfactual declaration into the universe, only to have the universe voice its displeasure.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
And many of my mainstream-media colleagues can accept the majority of accountability for this tragic development through biased, nonfactual and incomplete reporting that has pretty much degenerated into talking heads venting their specific agendas.
—Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020
The cold calculated coercion of the executive order came after Twitter made the editorial decision to add factual information to balance the nonfactual statements of the President.
—Tom Wheeler, Time, 29 May 2020
But Trump rarely waits on facts before oozing out an unqualified, nonfactual take about a potential terror incident that has been allegedly carried out by a Muslim extremist.
—Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
Dear Amy: My half-sister has been posting inflammatory and nonfactual information on Facebook about her adoptive family.
—Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonfactual
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Bad Summer People, which has drawn comparisons to The White Lotus, is set in the idyllic fictional town of Salcombe, Fire Island, and follows a sequence of life shattering events when a body is discovered off the side of the boardwalk.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the series, Sephora becomes a sponsor for the fictional Los Angeles Waves basketball team, of which Kate Hudson’s character becomes the president.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
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To date, all changes are speculative in nature and are unlikely to be applied retroactively.—
Cindy McGhee,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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These tokens illustrate how speculative assets tied to political figures can generate short-term buzz but carry significant downside for everyday buyers.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Amid the audience laughter at a lecture, U.S. Navy oceanographer Robert Ballard bit his tongue and told the questioner the jewelry was fictitious.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Searches were carried out in France and Belgium last month to determine if his Belgian tax domicile was fictitious.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
10 July 2016
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Well, certainly the most unhistorical.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Aug. 2022
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Not in some hypothetical future—but right now, in workflows that have long resisted automation.—
Don Muir,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The Nuggets lost the first two meetings, seemingly clinching a hypothetical head-to-head tiebreaker for the Clippers.—
Matt Schubert,
Denver Post,
12 Apr. 2025
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Based on the second-longest investigation in Swedish history, this is a fictionalized account of the 2004 double murder of a small boy and a 50-year-old woman in the small town of Linkoping.—
Andrea Duncan-Mao,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is intertwined with fictionalized scenes of Du Bois’s final years working on the project in the newly independent African nation.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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Legacy power grids, water systems and emergency response networks are no longer theoretical.—
Marty Sprinzen,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Dutch theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent much of the past half-century reshaping our understanding of the fundamental forces that knit together reality.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2025
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American sportswriter Frank Deford perpetuated the apocryphal story of Leo Seltzer’s invention of roller derby.—
Colleen English,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2025
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There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Nonfactual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonfactual. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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