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

“The Unfolding” felt authentic because its fictive characters interact with real people.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 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

When creditors came by demanding to see the owner of the building, Holmes referred them happily to the fictive H. S. Campbell.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson