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

After photographing her favorite pavers multiple times, Connor collaged the mostly 36-inch-by-36-inch squares digitally to form a fictive map of downtown.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

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

I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover