fictive

Example Sentences

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We next enter a fictive chapel, with the Latin rite being celebrated by a set of crimson vestments and an altar cloth, made in Paris in 1619 and given by Louis XIII.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

We could insert some crack here about the flat Earth, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and other fictive things people believe in.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2022

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

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

Trade may seem a very pragmatic activity, one that needs no fictive basis.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari