pure fiction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpureandfiction
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pure
adjective
uk/pjʊər/us/pjʊr/
not mixed with ...
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fiction
noun
uk/ˈfɪk.ʃən/us/ˈfɪk.ʃən/
the type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people ...
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(Definition ofpureandfictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But that would have to bepurefiction.
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Any idea of projecting the "economic man" ispurefictionbecause many other elements along with economics, go to make up man.
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It ispurefictionto maintain that all we have ever been interested in is spending as much money as possible.
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It is apurefictionand a valuable one to say that an adopted child is a real child.
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The idea that these regulations are primarily to help farmers ispurefiction.
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It ispurefictionto suggest anything of that kind.
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That, to the best of my knowledge and belief, is apurefiction.
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All that waspurefiction.
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Thus, these long-term estimates arepurefiction.
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In fact, those reports werepurefiction.
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Is it not true that the figure of £100,000,000 is apurefiction, and that no facts or figures can be produced to sustain anything like it?
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It is a work ofpurefiction.
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It is apurefiction.
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They are willing to face all that rage and embarrassment to protect thepurefictionthat this is an ex gratia payment, and a reimbursible one at that.
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The time has at last come when all the old arguments for hanging are seen to be threadbare, based on absolutely unsupported assumptions, onpurefiction.
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Major problems include the nature of the sources it used, and how much of the content ispurefiction.
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It was a biography of the world and it waspurefiction.
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In reality such a relationship ispurefiction.
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They promoted a lurid literature of exposure, much of itpurefiction.
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