fictive
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And the warrant of their inventive or fictive nature is precisely their peculiar storybook scenography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
With Parsons now adapting the Backrooms for a feature-length horror thriller, the strange fictive world is rapidly entering mainstream discourse.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
When he isn’t fetishizing the fictive cannibal Hannibal Lecter — “a wonderful man” — Donald Trump rhapsodizes over the gangster Al Capone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Jerry West demanded a retraction and an apology from HBO over the overheated, fictive way he is depicted.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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