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nonfictional

American  
[nahn-fik-shuhn-uhl] / ˌnɑnˈfɪk ʃən əl /

adjective

  1. relating or belonging to nonfiction rather than fiction.


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Third Place Books bookseller Andrea Pangilinan, who organized the store’s new Radical Romance Book Club, said that sales of the genre tend to react to the state of things in the nonfictional world.

From Seattle Times Feb. 10, 2022

The exact scenario portrayed is physically impossible in our nonfictional universe, but it’s hard not to think of that dramatic scene as an omen.

From Washington Post Nov. 19, 2021

Gabler, a fictional character, seemed to be just as real for Hardwick as the decidedly nonfictional Plath.

From New York Times Nov. 3, 2021

How do you define the term astromycology here in our nonfictional universe?

From Scientific American Aug. 3, 2021

“But we can start with the history of the Amyr. Or any nonfictional reports of the Chandrian. Anything about either one really. I haven’t been able to find a thing.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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