fiction
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The defense lawyer cast Davis’ memoir as fiction and said there was no evidence his client was in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
She chose a selection of her own poetry, short fiction and essays for “The Portable Dorothy Parker,” a collection so popular that it has remained in print since it first appeared in 1944.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Once I read that simple recipe, it changed the way I thought about every kind of genre fiction, including superhero tales like HBO’s “Lanterns.”
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Kirkham places activities such as reading fiction or creative crafts in a similar category, although these might face less stigma than an activity like Lego.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The New York Times also disapproved of mixing news and fiction.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
Importantly, and often understated, tokenized equities remain tied to the traditional financial-asset universe; they are not “crypto-only” fictions but rather a bridge between legacy asset classes and blockchain infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
But Dillon’s memoir, as the author notes, was also rife with fictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The suit, filed Wednesday in the US state of Delaware, said Owens has been spreading "outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
For them epicycles were useful fictions which made computation of the position of the planets possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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