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
Like works of fiction, there are limitless topics that can make deciding on an eye-catching hardcover (that doubles as home decor) seemingly impossible.
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Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
But lies demand constant feeding, and the work of maintaining her fiction must have been draining.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
However, Schulman said that a challenge to rolling out robots is that robots have mostly been portrayed in fiction as harmful to humans.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2024
While harmless in the realm of fiction, this oversimplification becomes problematic when applied to human relationships and societal dynamics.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
But lies demand constant feeding, and the work of maintaining her fiction must have been draining.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
However, Schulman said that a challenge to rolling out robots is that robots have mostly been portrayed in fiction as harmful to humans.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2024
While harmless in the realm of fiction, this oversimplification becomes problematic when applied to human relationships and societal dynamics.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiction
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On Netflix Lovely Runner This romantic time travel fantasy was one of the year’s biggest hits and a surprise hit at that.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Today’s sentence helps ensure that Shouse’s fantasies won’t become another child’s nightmare for decades to come.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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But sales also told a tale of two markets, with its domestic and U.S. markets continuing to see slower sales growth, while international and especially Asia have provided new sales growth channels.Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The project is heavy on woozy tales of the erotic ups and emotional downs of falling hard, and the deadpan, adrift flows of Scoob and friends, like professional skirt-chaser Shaudy Kash, are like bumping Baby Smoove and Veeze with brain fog.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
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Maybe even more than surprise story of the year Indiana, Arizona State looks interesting in the Playoff given its offensive weaponry.The Athletic College Football, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
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The film is based on the best-selling novel by Freida McFadden and stars two of the hottest actresses of the moment, Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.Paloma González, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
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The series, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Perry, starred Jeff Bridges as veteran and former CIA operative Dan Chase.Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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But Intel does have incredibly valuable expertise and assets, notably its chip fabrication plants.Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: Altered The image of the X post is a fabrication.Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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Love Actually director Richard Curtis admits the 'stalker scene' is 'a bit weird' 07 of 20 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) A Willy Wonka-esque inventor brings magical toys to life in this exuberant Victorian steampunk fable.EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
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With respect to crypto assets, the invention of Bitcoin and the blockchain—a secure and decentralized digital ledger—and the rise of social media, satisfied the first two requirements, but Wall Street and policymakers remained suspicious of the sector.John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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In the late 19th century, before the invention of cinema and radio, every piece of music, performance, oration—even a natural view like a rainbow—was a unique event.Todd Eckert, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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The sequence lands on a quintessentially Burroughs image of Allerton, here a dream figment, with a glass balancing on his head.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2024
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Falling down the rabbit hole of a quaalude addiction, Callas names a British documentarian doing a story on her life (that is actually a figment of her imagination) after her favorite to take: Mandrax.Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
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“Fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiction. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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