fictive
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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’re in the visual vicinity of Sleeping Beauty’s fictive castle, which was mostly inspired by Neuschwanstein, an actual 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 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
Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 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
Vocabulary lists containing fictive
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