nonhistorical

Definition of nonhistoricalnext

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Recent Examples of nonhistorical The closest nonhistorical portrayals to Washington’s role among recent winners are probably Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club and Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart. Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 3 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhistorical
Adjective
  • In the 21st century, however, historians mistook the code word for a code name and gave the pretexts their unhistorical handle.
    Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Well, certainly the most unhistorical.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • That is the unhinged (complimentary) premise of Thomas Elrod’s debut, in which the fictional cult-classic epic fantasy Malicarn series is staged on an island with unwitting actors temporarily imprinted with the characters’ backstories.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • Midtown office buildings One of the most recognizable locations in the film is 1221 Avenue of the Americas, a 51-story tower in Midtown Manhattan that served as the exterior for the fictional Runway magazine headquarters in the original 2006 film.
    Kelly McGreal , Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • First, Jones submitted fraudulent expense reimbursement requests for fictitious business expenses.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Investigators say the monthly payroll expenses and the number of employees were fictitious and that the documents used to support the monthly income for the companies were false.
    Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Artificial Intelligence has evolved from a theoretical concept to a prevailing element of daily life.
    Kemba Walden, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the capacities cited may also represent theoretical potential or systems that are not consistently operating at full scale.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Developers routinely file speculative interconnection requests for projects that never get built, flooding queues with phantom demand.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The original ordinance was intended to prevent speculative demolition so that a developer could not tear down a house without approval to build a new one.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • None of that damage is hypothetical.
    Jon Duffy, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The killing of Comperatore adds another dead body to the hypothetical stage directions, or else marks things going hideously off-script, still without breaking the surrounding secrecy.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • To Coimbra, some key questions involved amalgamating real-life characters into fictionalized ones while still honoring victims and survivors, as well as faithfully recreating the look and feel of the time.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This book gives a fictionalized account of how a plucky young boy brought that iconic tradition into existence during the 1930s.
    Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues.
    Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022

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“Nonhistorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhistorical. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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