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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.
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.
NEVER forget that the words "figure" and "fictitious" come from the same Latin root.
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.
At Magazine Management, his big hire was a young novelist who wrote "millions of words" for the magazines, recounting fictitious World War II battles in Italy, while pounding a Mafia epic on the side.
A previous study showed that pairs of students interacting in a second language produced more words when they were assigned a fictitious expert position in a specific competence dimension than when they were assigned a nonexpert position.
