FABRICATION Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

fabrication

noun

ˌfa-bri-ˈkā-shən

Definition of fabrication

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication

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as in fiction

something that is the product of the imagination the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers

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Recent Examples of fabrication Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University's youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography. — Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 The project follows Tesla’s move earlier this year to break ground on a research fabrication facility at the North Campus of Giga Texas. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026 That’s bad for memory buyers, but great for memory sellers and those supplying products to the semiconductor fabrication facilities, like Qnity. — Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026 Cyber criminals are using highly convincing counterfeit audio, video, and identity fabrications as tools in ways that conventional detection methods will fail to identify. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fabrication

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Noun

His prose radiates an ecstatic pessimism, as if lit up from within by the relief of not having to sugarcoat things with comforting lies.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
Scammers often use one accurate detail to make a much larger lie feel believable.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of lie

Noun

The tale begins with a successful novelist in late middle age boarding a train after a publishing event.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Politicians in both parties often used tales of Medicaid fraud on the part of providers and recipients to justify tighter eligibility rules and spending cuts.

— Ben Zdencanovic, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of tale

Noun

Unlike the low-tech solution in American author Mary Mapes Dodge's 19th-century story, modern dike patrols are able to plot possible problems caused by drought in an app and send it to authorities who can then quickly carry our repairs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
That episode inspires a Gospel story where Jesus is asleep on a cushion in the stern of the boat during a furious storm.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of story

Noun

Like other crime-solving games, such as the Ace Attorney series, The Mermaid Mask is essentially a visual novel.

— Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2026
Some people maybe familiar with the Miles Franklin novel, others with Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film adaptation starring Judy Davis and the late Sam Neill, which has become something of an urtext for Australian New Wave cinema and feminist cinema.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of novel

Noun

Its Patent Asset Index weighs a portfolio by how strong its patents actually are, judged by how often other inventions build on them and how broadly they’re protected across markets.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
On Saturday, there is a film screening about Adam Osborne, who was cool before Steve Jobs with his invention of the portable computer.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 30 July 2026

Definition of invention

Noun

Your dry scratchy eyes also aren’t a figment of your imagination.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 July 2026
Pína and Hawk mysteriously slip out while Joe and Angela are in the kitchen, suggesting that the adventurous lovemakers may have just been figments of their imagination.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 11 July 2026

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