fictive
Example Sentences
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No doubt Russo and his fictive alter-ego have heard the popular prescriptions for curing arrested development—empathy, vulnerability, emotional intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“The Unfolding” felt authentic because its fictive characters interact with real people.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 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
Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022
When creditors came by demanding to see the owner of the building, Holmes referred them happily to the fictive H. S. Campbell.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing fictive
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