fictional
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The fictional Async is merely following the same trajectory.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
"Elmo hopes both teams have fun!," said Elmo, whose fictional Sesame Street is located in Manhattan.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Francesca Fiorentini, a comedian and podcaster, compared Steyer to Charles Dickens’ fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
As Artie pursues a haphazard path toward better self-understanding, Ms. Strout deploys the fictional strategies that have made her novels feel as if they are about more than ordinary subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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