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as in manufactured
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as in fictitious
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as in produced
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 concocted
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 constructed
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 lied
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 fabricated
Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
Defense attorneys will also prove that the allegations against King were fabricated as part of a larger conspiracy to install Saulter as the county sheriff, Daniel said.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2026
The 50-foot chrome statue, fabricated by Co-Museum, weighs 7 tons and is made of stainless steel.
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Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
Meloni said Trump fabricated the incident, and criticized his treatment of Washington’s allies.
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Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
21 June 2026
This allows major components to be fabricated in a factory environment and transported by truck or rail to the site for assembly, rather than being built entirely on-site.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
The team then fabricated their surface on a glass substrate.
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IEEE Spectrum,
18 June 2026
Alloys are fabricated as a single composite-metal wheel that is then polished.
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Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
The result is a giant inflatable structure, fabricated by Air Toiles Concept, a company out of Plougoumelen, in Brittany, that makes blow-up trophies for sporting events like Indian Premier cricket and the FIFA Arab Cup.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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His defense attorney Jacob Kaplan pushed back, saying Mann fabricated the allegation because of regret over the romance.
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Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
Defense attorneys will also prove that the allegations against King were fabricated as part of a larger conspiracy to install Saulter as the county sheriff, Daniel said.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2026
The 50-foot chrome statue, fabricated by Co-Museum, weighs 7 tons and is made of stainless steel.
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Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
22 June 2026
Meloni said Trump fabricated the incident, and criticized his treatment of Washington’s allies.
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Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
21 June 2026
This allows major components to be fabricated in a factory environment and transported by truck or rail to the site for assembly, rather than being built entirely on-site.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
The team then fabricated their surface on a glass substrate.
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IEEE Spectrum,
18 June 2026
Alloys are fabricated as a single composite-metal wheel that is then polished.
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Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
The result is a giant inflatable structure, fabricated by Air Toiles Concept, a company out of Plougoumelen, in Brittany, that makes blow-up trophies for sporting events like Indian Premier cricket and the FIFA Arab Cup.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabricated
Adjective
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Its role is to expose wrongdoing, illuminate facts, and draw the world’s attention to crimes committed in the name of false causes and manufactured justifications.
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Through this, researchers are mimicking natural structures, such as bird nests and bone minerals, to create ultra-strong manufactured materials.
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The book traces the fictitious Yeoman family’s evolution over generations from self-sufficient homesteaders to participants in global markets.
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Hosting its usual presentation at its headquarters, located a stone’s throw from San Babila square, the brand installed video walls that broadcast a fictitious runway show created with the help of AI.
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Brown served as a historian of the Black experience and simultaneously challenged a nation to expand their minds, added Vaughan, a cultural critic who directed a similar interview show for Jesse Jackson, produced by music-entertainment mogul Quincy Jones in the 1990s.
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Winick Productions, a company that has produced red carpet events for the Grammy and Tony award shows and movie premieres, also applied for a permit to set up a canopy or tent outside the Garden for an event involving up to 999 people.
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In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it.
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Every detail is accurate, though the picture as a whole is an invention, concocted from multiple views, locations, and studies.
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Haiti’s first was well constructed.
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Once the model is built, it can be used to take a scene constructed by artists and tweak it, making the physics look realistic — not by modeling the physics, but by guessing at them based on absorbing an incredibly large dataset of real-world footage.
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According to officials, Releford lied about his criminal history, education, and professional qualifications to become a judge, despite not having a nursing degree or being qualified to practice in Georgia.
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Here's everything to know about why Taylor Parker lied about being pregnant and killed Reagan Simmons-Hancock.
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While the heroine in this novel is fictional, readers will be drawn to this mystery set during WWII about codebreaking, and a Nazi threat on American soil.
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Cue a whole host of dodgy deals and shady string-pulling, not to mention an extramarital affair, as the entirely fictional — but no doubt true to life — character abandons any sense of morality.
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He also was named first-team All-Pro and made the Pro Bowl again in 2015.
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The Tartan Army finally made it to Fenway, a sort of Loch Ness Monster meeting the Green Monstah, in time to watch the Texas Rangers beat the Red Sox 6-4, apparently drinking the Hub dry.
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