fictitious
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You couldn’t ask for a better example of the nature of fictitious capital and the kind of person it’s selecting for.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Some people just want a fictitious romance but have no intention of ever meeting you. Or they're married, or just want an online relationship."
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The group paid informants starting in the 1980s, sometimes using fictitious companies to disguise the payments, according to the indictment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Kino’s hypocrisy stems from the same swamp as the original’s fictitious Dr. Gröss, whose lurid footage climaxed with a tsk-tsking screed against poverty, pollution and fascism as major contributors to the global death toll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
I ask the photographer, from my perch at Theo’s desk, the one that I am supposed to be pretending is my own desk as I write fictitious letters to the boys on the front.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing fictitious
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "E" and "F"
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The Pigman
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