fictive
Example Sentences
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No doubt Russo and his fictive alter-ego have heard the popular prescriptions for curing arrested development—empathy, vulnerability, emotional intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“If I put this magic stuff on my actual street, what will happen? Will it be imbued with this fictive energy? I kind of like that idea.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023
One pathway for change is identifying and funding more opportunities to place youths with relatives or fictive kin — people with whom they have social, not familial, ties.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2022
Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022
I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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