fictive
adjective
fic·tive
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But wait, a twist reveals Quichotte is himself a fictive creation, a character written by spy novelist Sam DuChamp. — Annabel Gutterman, Time, "The 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019," 30 Aug. 2019 In the opera, the character singing the excerpts is Gepopo, the head of espionage for the fictive Prince Go-Go. — Anne Midgette, Washington Post, "Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi," 4 July 2019 The scale and the speed of China’s economic transformation were conducive to a fictive mode that concerns itself with the fate of whole societies, planets, and galaxies, and in which individuals are presented as cogs in larger systems. — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, "Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds," 17 June 2019 All credit to Sam Mendes, who won for his direction, for so convincingly inhabiting this fictive Irish world with his impeccable ensemble. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "Tony Awards: A critic celebrates Broadway's unabashed idealism," 9 June 2019 There’s no part of our lives that is exempt from this kind of fictive world-making. — Sean Illing, Vox, "Why science can’t replace religion," 4 Nov. 2018 Since that time, fictive sisterhoods of all stripes (familial and otherwise) have been realized to wonderful effect, giving women the opportunity to commune and take up space in ways not always fostered by their surrounding culture. — Marley Marius, Vogue, "8 Stirring Tales of Sisterhood Adapted From the Page to the Silver Screen (That Aren’t Greta Gerwig’s Little Women)," 13 July 2018 For DeKnight, that love extended to black readers who had never seen their families’ recipes in print—as well as black people for whom kin, fictive or otherwise, is not a source of sustenance. — Hannah Giorgis, Bon Appetit, "How Freda DeKnight’s Cookbook, ‘A Date with a Dish’ Inspired Generations of Black Cooks," 19 June 2018 Other exhibits, equipped with screens — rather like video games — challenge players to stop a fictive epidemic threatening Quebec, or to catch an antelope (like the cave people did) to feed their families. — New York Times, "Francine Prose on Montreal in the Spring: The Time of the Butterflies," 11 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fictive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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