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 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
Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2022
At close range, though, they were an arresting party—at least to me, who had never seen anything like them, and to whom they suggested a variety of picturesque and fictive qualities.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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