nonfictional
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A title card announces that “some aspects and timelines have been fictionalized for purposes of dramatization,” adding that any resemblance of the fictional parts to anything nonfictional is not intended.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024
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
“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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