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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
Chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, packaging, and testing will all happen under one roof, which Musk notes hasn't happened before.
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New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2026
Texas Instruments’ newest semiconductor fabrication plant began production late last year in Sherman.
—Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2026
Helium is essential for manufacturing semiconductors, including the cutting-edge chips used for artificial intelligence models produced in Asian fabrication plants.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
State public health officials estimated in 2023 that of the 4,000 people working in stone-fabrication shops throughout the state, up to 850 — one in five workers — would get silicosis, with as many as 160 dying.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
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New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2026
Texas Instruments’ newest semiconductor fabrication plant began production late last year in Sherman.
—Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2026
Helium is essential for manufacturing semiconductors, including the cutting-edge chips used for artificial intelligence models produced in Asian fabrication plants.
—ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
State public health officials estimated in 2023 that of the 4,000 people working in stone-fabrication shops throughout the state, up to 850 — one in five workers — would get silicosis, with as many as 160 dying.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
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These pivotal memories of Clark and Floyd’s buddy romance amount to another darkly comic portrait of a nontoxic male friendship — complete with nontraditional definitions of manhood that place meaningful friendships over monolithic strength — all built on a foundation of lies and insecurities.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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Its entire ecosystem—social media, podcasts, and talk radio—is committed to spreading lies and conspiracy theories, to stoking rage and resentment.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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My colleagues in European public broadcasting, in other countries — whether smaller countries that can’t afford to support their national production at the same level as ours, or countries as big as ours but facing the same budget constraints — are already diving into American fiction.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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On the final day of the festival, The Observer is hosting an event with debut novelists the paper considers to be rising stars of fiction.—
Irenie Forshaw,
TheWeek,
26 Mar. 2026
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Jude relocates this tale of troubled conscience to present-day Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and subjects it to a corrosively cynical twist.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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My confidence was further bolstered when Zenker informed me about Beau Miles, an adventure filmmaker known for documenting his self-experiments, who, back in 2020, when an entirely different disaster descended upon us, ate only beans for 40 days (191 cans to be exact)—and lived to tell the tale.—
Ayana Underwood,
Outside,
27 Mar. 2026
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For more than four decades, the Korean immigrant has worked at the shop near Travis Air Force Base, hearing countless stories of loss, sacrifice and heartbreak from military families and service members.—
Kenny Choi,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Paxton told stories about running for office for the first time and his 2023 impeachment.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Less dangerous but more common are fantasies and hallucinations, which Laye believes result from general fatigue.—
Brad Stulberg,
Outside,
26 Mar. 2026
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This leaves room for creative speculation that can stretch into fantasy.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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In the novel, the protagonist Hana learns of a feng shui belief that says placing something yellow on the west side of one’s home will improve a person’s financial fortune.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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The 2023 release was based on the Suzanne Collins novel of the same name and directed by Francis Lawrence.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2026
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By bringing to the seas this terrestrial invention, seagrasses grew in ways that no other ocean species could, in rugged mats of almost unbreakable fibers.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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The lessons that endure are about constraint and invention, messiness and coordination, contradiction and persistence—about intervening directly and fearlessly in material reality.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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According to Jean-Jacques L’Henaff, vice president of design at American Standard, the shift away from bathtubs is not a figment of our imagination.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Mar. 2026
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China occupies islands across the South China Sea without even a figment of legal right.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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