fictive

Example Sentences

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This serious-minded four-part documentary series, produced by Abrams’s Bad Robot, wonders if maybe some of that science isn’t so fictive after all.

From New York Times

But when my son was about 3, I realized his fictive worlds were vivid enough to continue without me.

From New York Times

At close range, though, they were an arresting party—at least to me, who had never seen anything like them, and to whom they suggested a variety of picturesque and fictive qualities.

From Literature

Can I be the only reader to see in these sentiments the figure of Ozick peeking out from behind the fictive veil?

From Los Angeles Times

They may speak of "tradition" and a return to some idyllic, fictive past of "greatness" and "glory," but those are just linguistic devices deployed to achieve victory by destroying existing societal institutions and norms.

From Salon