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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
But experts have said manufacturing products like iPhones domestically would be a daunting challenge even if the United States had the necessary fabrication plants.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
In Arizona, the Taiwan company is developing six semiconductor fabrication plants, Chron reports.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The Polish chronicler Ryszard Kapuściński tried to do for the age of decolonization what Malaparte did for the Second World War, though without winning the same indulgence for fabrication.
—Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Key fabrication and tooling players like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), Samsung, and ASML Holding NV (ASML) remain undervalued by comparison.
—Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
In Arizona, the Taiwan company is developing six semiconductor fabrication plants, Chron reports.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The Polish chronicler Ryszard Kapuściński tried to do for the age of decolonization what Malaparte did for the Second World War, though without winning the same indulgence for fabrication.
—Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
Key fabrication and tooling players like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), Samsung, and ASML Holding NV (ASML) remain undervalued by comparison.
—Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
Noun
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Basing a political movement on lies and conspiracy theories is inevitably going to come back to haunt you.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
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The misinformation, and sometimes blatant lies, being spread around the country could result in someone stepping into a federal operation and suddenly finding themselves face-to-face with a killer who has nothing to lose.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Stablecoins versus traditional cross-border payments: Separating truth from fiction For the last few years, the narrative from many in the stablecoin space has been that the technology is inherently cheaper and faster than established cross-border payments solutions.—
Daniel Webber,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Because his reality emerges from fiction, Musk is untethered from any sense of earthly constraints.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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The Coldplay public humiliation is a cautionary tale of atrophied American privacy.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
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That tale is just one of many in the story that don’t show Joel in an especially flattering light.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
18 July 2025
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Little Dream's cake also featured some butterfly detailing, as seen on Khloé's story.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
29 July 2025
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Jacaranda Productions develops original content across theater, screen, online and immersive entertainment, operating as both a production company and incubator for emerging stories and talent.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 July 2025
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This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Those Asimov novels featured hyperrational heroes, many of them engineers, who saved humanity by building space colonies where civilization could begin anew.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2025
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That’s great for the team, but not fantasy managers.—
KC Joyner,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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Even Game of Thrones, arguably the most successful fantasy/genre series in Emmys history, can only credit 32 of its 164 Emmy nominations across eight seasons to acting categories (and eight of them were for Peter Dinklage).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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And there's also a de-emphasis of our history of creativity, of innovation, of invention, right?—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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When news of Daguerre’s invention reached England, Talbot was alarmed.—
Anika Burgess
July 17,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.—
Margy Rochlin,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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But Annabelle is also haunted by terrifying dreams — ones where her family are affected — and which Annabelle soon realizes aren’t just figments of her imagination, but premonitions of what’s to come.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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