fictional account

collocation in English

meaningsoffictionalandaccount

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fictional
adjective
uk
/ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl/
imaginary:
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition offictionalandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffictional account

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In another example, the narrative of a real expedition sounds like afictionalaccount, and bears featured prominently.
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The gesture of securing the painting may also have inspired afictionalaccountof the theft (see below).
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It is a partlyfictionalaccountof his time running a new media startup company.
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It is thefictionalaccountof 22 sailors marooned in a lifeboat.
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The book offers afictionalaccountof life in the year 2000.
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The book details afictionalaccountof the future of space travel, specifically space tourism.
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It is afictionalaccountof a youngster who returns home from his vedic school.
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This included poems, game show parodies, andfictionalaccountwhich are based on basic facts.
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Listeners were relieved to discover at the end of the broadcast that it had been afictionalaccount.
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The film is afictionalaccountof a flight attendant who finds herself responsible for an unaccompanied minor.
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In thisfictionalaccountthe beverage is marketed to young women, when it previously had been mostly consumed by the older male generation.
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He set out to construct afictionalaccountof what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime.
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Actually a song cycle, this work is afictionalaccountof a pregnant woman, who, after her husband dies in the tragedy, experiences deeply mixed emotions.
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Most contemporary reviewers accepted the book as factual, but subsequent scholarship has demonstrated that most of the book is no more than afictionalaccountof his life.
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