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

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

Jerry West demanded a retraction and an apology from HBO over the overheated, fictive way he is depicted.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2022

Ingrid Yang is a hapless 29-year-old PhD candidate at a small university in Massachusetts, floundering on a dissertation about the school’s most famous former professor, the fictive, late Chinese poet Xiao-Wen Chou.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt