fictional
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Elaborately framed as the translation of a rediscovered travel memoir, complete with fictional footnotes, many readers thought it was about a genuine historic text when the book was first published in 2020.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Allison’s publisher thinks it’s time to retire the beloved fictional character, Selena St. Cloud.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
What most people don’t realize about the “Amadeus” version of Mozart’s story is that historians posit it is almost entirely fictional.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
Connie is the only daughter of Vito Corleone, the fictional mafia patriarch and father of his eventual successor, Michael Corleone.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
“Based on hearsay rather than personal experience? What if it’s purely fictional? Novel travelogues were quite a fashion in Modeg a couple hundred years ago.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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