confabulated

past tense of confabulate

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Recent Examples of confabulated The errant or confabulated information that AI tools can generate is often referred to as hallucinations. Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026 These failures occurred when the AI models confabulated successful operations and built subsequent actions on false premises, highlighting the risks of depending on AI assistants that can misinterpret file structures or fabricate data to hide their errors. ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confabulated
Verb
  • Britain has consulted teachers, parents and young people on new restrictions, including a possible ban for under-16s, as well as curfews, app time limits and curbs on what the government has described as addictive design features.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
  • That means the people with the most direct relationship to the land are often the last to be consulted about what happens to it.
    Buket Altınçelep, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
Verb
  • The game was abandoned with no further play following Eriksen's collapse after the referee conferred with staff and players from both teams.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Given the advantages that whiteness often conferred, calling attention to it was like being a sore winner.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • The supervisors had discussed in March whether the money could be used to address pressing demands across the county, such as the multimillion-dollar liability from the Airport fire in 2024.
    Claire Wang, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • According to The Associated Press, prior to the meeting, the pope discussed his and the artist's overlapping schedules and who might dominate young people's attention between the two figures.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 10 June 2026

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“Confabulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confabulated. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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