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as in to produce
to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials
with a few inexpensive materials from a craft shop, we were able to fabricate our own holiday wreath
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as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
fabricated a daring plan to create an underground explosion that would take the enemy totally by surprise
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as in to construct
to form by putting together parts or materials
the house was essentially fabricated at the factory and then shipped to the site for assembly
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as in to lie
to make a statement one knows to be untrue
since he didn't have a good excuse for not having done his homework, he would have to fabricate one
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Recent Examples of fabricate
But Tan posted on LinkedIn earlier this week that Elon Musk has tapped Intel to design, fabricate and package custom chips for SpaceX, xAI and Tesla at his ambitious Terafab project in Texas, though no financial details or timeline were announced.
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Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Developed by the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), the eco-friendly, high-performance thermoelectric material is based on silver selenide (Ag₂Se), and fabricated under significantly milder temperature and pressure conditions than conventional methods.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
Paolo found a vintage Liberty Bell pin that was perfect for Charge Nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) to wear, but of course needed to fabricate multiples of that pin for the different stages of wear Evans would go through over the course of the shift.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
Atwood's Testaments is a sequel to her Handmaid's Tale, however, not Miller's Handmaid's Tale, which over the course of six seasons far surpassed the bounds of its source, fabricating entirely new characters, storylines, and eventualities.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
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Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
Developed by the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), the eco-friendly, high-performance thermoelectric material is based on silver selenide (Ag₂Se), and fabricated under significantly milder temperature and pressure conditions than conventional methods.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
Paolo found a vintage Liberty Bell pin that was perfect for Charge Nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) to wear, but of course needed to fabricate multiples of that pin for the different stages of wear Evans would go through over the course of the shift.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
Atwood's Testaments is a sequel to her Handmaid's Tale, however, not Miller's Handmaid's Tale, which over the course of six seasons far surpassed the bounds of its source, fabricating entirely new characters, storylines, and eventualities.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabricate
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That recipe produced 4 2/3 scoreless innings before his brother Aaden came on to get the save in a 6-0 Fox Valley Conference victory over the host Rockets.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2026
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Sony Pictures Television, where Roberts is under an overall deal, will produce.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2026
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Yes, a new model was devised that showed how a modern economy could sustain a large middle-class society that shared in its general prosperity and great progress.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Deep listening is a practice devised by composer Pauline Oliveros.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Neighbors in Hollywood's North Lake neighborhood lost their fight to prevent a new apartment building from being constructed, after the City Commission approved the four-story, 22-unit building at North 16th Avenue and Shenandoah Street.—
Ted Scouten,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The company constructed its Hollywood lot on 26 acres in 1926, located in the same spot where its 65-acre campus stands today.—
Hadley Hitson,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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The appeal of Larsson lies less in her songcraft than in her got-it-out-the-mud performer’s grit.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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McIlroy looks to be ahead of Morikawa in his recovery, but the rolling, difficult walk and lie angles on second shots at Augusta National Golf Club can tweak even a healthy player’s back muscles.—
Dennis Esser,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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Atletico is at home to defend its 2-0 win from the first leg and try to make it to the last four of the European competition for the first time in nearly a decade.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The talk of the newsroom this morning is why Wall Street rallied and oil prices retreated on what could be considered very tenuous indications that diplomatic progress is being made.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2026
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According to the report, workers illegally pocketed between $20,000 and more than $41,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans from a massive federal COVID-19 pandemic relief effort – some by concocting companies that didn't exist to pocket federal assistance funds.—
Chris Tye,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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In an interview with The Times, Sid confessed that the whole thing was a lie concocted by a publicist in the 1940s.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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The pricetag for building a new I Street bridge in Sacramento was estimated to be $300 million last year, but construction bids have now come back and the new cost is between $98 million and $217 million more.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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There are 31 countries that use nuclear power, which provides about 10% of global electricity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which says another 40 nations are either considering the technology or preparing to build a plant.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The shipping disruption also largely stopped the export of nitrogen fertilizers manufactured in the Persian Gulf and limited access to key fertilizer ingredients.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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There was no longer any mechanism to manufacture trust and stimulate voluntary citizen idea generation and problem solving, no space any more for spontaneous working informality for business leaders, educators, politicians, public officials, wealthy scions of old families, clergy, etc.—
Stephen B. Young,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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