fictitious person
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Police determined the original target Fuentes set out to kill “appears to be a fictitious person that is part of Fuentes’ mental health issues.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024
Most of the cases start with an email from a fictitious person, a subset of the surge in phishing that has greatly increased the vulnerability of communications online.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
It has been rumored that Blunt is a fictitious person.
From Time • Aug. 16, 2017
Three packages were mailed one after another, each shipped from the same Colorado post office to the same Houston business in the name of the same fictitious person.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2016
She invented a fictitious person whom she called Evelyn Everybody.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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