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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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Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 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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Many of the disclaimers on Facebook ads listed nonexistent entities.Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
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Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Virginia studied thousands of audio samples and found Whisper adding nonexistent violent content and racial commentary to neutral speech.Benj Edwards, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
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But deceptive narrative and form are not what wreaked havoc on Catherine’s life.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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See Arizona election results | Live coverage on Election Day Labor activists, on the other hand, have called the measure a deceptive sham.Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 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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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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“Fictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictive. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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