confabulated

past tense of confabulate

Example Sentences

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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
  • Warren’s campaign fizzled out, but President Joe Biden later consulted with the group on a proposal to tax families with more than $100 million in assets.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Kwapis consulted with composers, musicologists, record producers, and culture writers to provide commentary for the film.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Judge, along with Michael Schuck, the club’s director of sports medicine and rehabilitation, conferred with the skipper.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In the coming months, my office will dutifully carry out the responsibilities the governor has conferred upon us in this executive order.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Notable In 2025, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing, a hot mic picked up a conversation between Putin and Xi in which the two discussed organ transplants and the possibility of living forever.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The agency and private space company SpaceX have also discussed sending humans to Mars in the not-so-distant future.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

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

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