Sentence examples for fictitious words from inspiring English sources

In a study published in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Kyle Jasmin and Daniel Casasanto asked people to rate real words, fictitious words and neologisms.

Its author, Elif Shafak, was accused by the Turkish government of 'insulting Turkishness' and could have been the first writer to be jailed in Turkey for fictitious words spoken by an invented person.

To separate these two types of computation, we experimentally modified the natural organization of the lexicon by teaching participants two sets of fictitious novel words on successive days (e.g., "formubo" and "mushrood") that closely overlap with one existing word ("formula" and "mushroom").

"The monthly statements were completely fictitious, but word spread anyway," says Teresa Verges, assistant regional director of the SEC office in Miami.

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The word fictitious has appeared in 145 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 30 in "Tony Award Nominations: Who Got Snubbed?" by Craig Gibbs Douglas Carter Beanee's "The Nance," which drew a nomination for its leading actor, Nathan Lane, was nonetheless itself ignored in the best play category.

Gilbert and Sullivan created fictitious worlds.

In other words, this fictitious transition of Germany's electricity system up to a 50% decarbonization by 2030 could be considered as a feasible challenge to the German national economy and as quite affordable for its main stakeholders.

Unknown to the Chez Josephine crew, similar scenes were being played out at restaurants all over town -- 240 of them, Columbia now says -- that received the identically worded, totally fictitious letter from Professor Flynn as part of a study to determine how they responded to complaints.

In post-election Iran, the crazy-quilt check and balance system that has undergirded the fictitious use of the word "republic" in the "Islamic Republic" has proven to be a mirage.

NEVER forget that the words "figure" and "fictitious" come from the same Latin root.