fictive
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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
When he isn’t fetishizing the fictive cannibal Hannibal Lecter — “a wonderful man” — Donald Trump rhapsodizes over the gangster Al Capone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
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
Ingrid Yang is a hapless 29-year-old PhD candidate at a small university in Massachusetts, floundering on a dissertation about the school’s most famous former professor, the fictive, late Chinese poet Xiao-Wen Chou.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022
Hiram S. Campbell was the fictive owner of Holmes’s Englewood building.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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