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fiction

[fik-shuhn] / ˈfɪk ʃən /


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But if the best fiction can also be instructive, maybe the last moral of Kazan’s “East of Eden” can help us hold multiple truths at once.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

One Anthropic engineer wrote in his event bio that he was a “recovering AI doomer,” as well as a voracious fiction reader fond of sharing cat pictures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Sliced Bread separates science fact from the marketing fiction.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Then he paid high school students to write on the papyrus using passages from "Star Wars," the Bible, and a quote from the 1960s science fiction television show "The Outer Limits."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The New York Times also disapproved of mixing news and fiction.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Amid the usual rants of self-puffery and other fictions, he said this:

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

These fictions may take a variety of forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Importantly, and often understated, tokenized equities remain tied to the traditional financial-asset universe; they are not “crypto-only” fictions but rather a bridge between legacy asset classes and blockchain infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

Today, facts told as fiction are not nearly as popular as fictions presented as facts.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025

For them epicycles were useful fictions which made computation of the position of the planets possible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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