fiction
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Its clashes—between young prodigies and seasoned grandmasters, diverging national loyalties and opposing personalities—have inspired fiction, films, a popular Netflix series and a current Broadway musical revival.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
They just don’t claim that the whole thing is fiction unless they’re working an angle.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technology has demolished the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing cybercriminals strikingly convincing voice cloning tools to steal from people by mimicking loved ones.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
Here, Travolta excavates truth from fiction, and fiction from truth; in his eyes, reality is manufactured with a sprinkle of both.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
That leaves Garrett completely speechless, and before any of us can keep his little fiction balloon from popping, the soldier leans in, looks down at Garrett, and says, “Mind telling me what that is?”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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