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- adjective Partially but not entirely
fictional
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Examples
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The start-up image was also burnished last fall with the release of "The Social Network," a movie that gave a semifictional account of the birth of Facebook.
At Mature Techs, a Young Vibe Joe Light 2011
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The start-up image was also burnished last fall with the release of "The Social Network," a movie that gave a semifictional account of the birth of Facebook.
At Mature Techs, a Young Vibe Joe Light 2011
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Maybe the filmmakers actually tracked the real-life saga of their desperate heroine and her imperiled cubs, rather than assembled a semifictional story from extensive footage.
'Unknown': Unmoored, Overcooked Joe Morgenstern 2011
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He also wrote the introduction to Dundy's novel, The Dud Avocado, when NYRB brought it back last year and made a bit of a hit out of it almost a half-century after it had become a surprise international bestseller, as a charming, semifictional account of her madcap life as a young American in Paris.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Robert Lloyd on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: [T] he semifictional representation of his family was for all intents and purposes Ozzie's only job.
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MORRIS: The narrator of "Dutch" is only semifictional.
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Set in the semifictional town of Skinner, Oregon Eugene, Oregon, was founded by Eugene Skinner, the “three-dimensional tales” took shape.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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Perhaps most telling is the buzz surrounding Velvet Goldmine, a film that chronicles the glitter era in semifictional terms.
Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003
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I am quite baffled by his ambitiously redundant list of my omissions, and can only suppose that he got a bit carried away by his eagerness to discredit me as a peddler of "semifictional narrative."
'Death in Kashmir': An Exchange Gumaste, Vivek 2001
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Though hardly ever read or played anymore upon this globe, a good many accounts of him exist in Library Central, straightforward, semifictional, or romantic.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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