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fictionally

  • a word derived from fiction.
    fiction
    noun
    the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
  • a word derived from fictional.
    fictional
    adjective
    invented as part of a work of fiction.

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Or, fictionally, the Riders of Rohan sweeping down on the besieged city of Gondor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

It is generally awarded for work in a foreign country - James Bond, who Craig plays in the film franchise, was fictionally given the same honour.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2021

That's going to be fun going forward, because you've had 20 years of negligence in a medical examiner system, like I have fictionally in this particular scenario.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021

The trolley problem is a decades-old moral dilemma where someone must fictionally decide whether to steer a trolley toward one person to save a larger group of people.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021

He gave himself a boyhood as a jockey and also enlisted fictionally in the Spanish American war.

From The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun