1
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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2
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
Saint Laurent noted that each table produced will be unique, owing to the singular patterns created during its fabrication.
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Joelle Diderich, WWD, 24 Mar. 2025
Add to that the need to build factories and fabrication plants for microchips.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
Instead, each case involved egregious misconduct, including the wholesale fabrication of news stories.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
This blithe self-confidence is particularly egregious in depictions of distant history, where imagination inevitably courts fabrication.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
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Joelle Diderich, WWD, 24 Mar. 2025
Add to that the need to build factories and fabrication plants for microchips.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
Instead, each case involved egregious misconduct, including the wholesale fabrication of news stories.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
This blithe self-confidence is particularly egregious in depictions of distant history, where imagination inevitably courts fabrication.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
Noun
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In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.—
Domenico Starnone,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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The engaging historical fiction balances a serious side and a strong sense of humor with its two different main characters: While Benedict has conservative leanings, Bergoglio is a liberal seeking church reform, and their debate tells a tale of human understanding and fallibility.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Rather than strain to add an arthouse veneer (or the climactic reveal of an animating trauma), Coogler offers a true synthesis between serious-minded fiction and B-movie camp.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
22 Apr. 2025
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But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Top stories About the writer Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Then, after young mothers and children who had just arrived shared their stories, the Holy Father returned to the sister who had been mentioned before.—
Mireya Villarreal,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Her second book, 'Wolfie,' a children’s novel, was published in November 2022.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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An Emily Henry novel reads like a classic rom-com in the making.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Plus, that veil of fantasy keeps things from getting too serious.—
Anja Webb,
Parents,
30 Apr. 2025
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Notes on Riley Quick, Henry Ford, as well as some top names for 2026 Concerning fantasy baseball 2025 performances from Roki Sasaki, Cody Bellinger and more Zack Meisel is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the Cleveland Guardians and Major League Baseball.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Besides being an agency invention ungrounded in the statute, disparate impact liability stands antidiscrimination law on its head.—
The Editors,
National Review,
25 Apr. 2025
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One of her inventions is a program called RAH (Ready for American Hospitality), which opens the minds and hearts of students by pairing them with refugees from the ECDC/African Community Center.—
Laurel Donnellan,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Making matters worse is the fact that her traumas manifest in the shape of her deceased best friend Zoe (Morales) who often shows up as a figment of her imagination.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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And with great fondness for Firth, who turns up as a wistful figment in a handful of scenes, this tragedy is the best thing that could have happened to the franchise.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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