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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
Every one of these chips, Jalapeño included, depends on Taiwan Semiconductor for advanced fabrication and the specialized packaging that bonds compute and memory into a single working part.
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Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
From there, evolution comes through silhouette, fabrication, sustainability, and styling.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
25 June 2026
Does Storer have one more gear of fabrication in store, a transition from Tony Scott to Dogville-style Lars von Trier?
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
In 2025, the company and the federal government announced a $200 billion investment plan, with $30 billion of it earmarked to build a second chip fabrication plant in Boise.
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Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
25 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for fabrication
Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
From there, evolution comes through silhouette, fabrication, sustainability, and styling.
—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
25 June 2026
Does Storer have one more gear of fabrication in store, a transition from Tony Scott to Dogville-style Lars von Trier?
—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
In 2025, the company and the federal government announced a $200 billion investment plan, with $30 billion of it earmarked to build a second chip fabrication plant in Boise.
—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
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The lawsuit alleges that this was a lie and that neither of LeVota’s tax plans were created at the direction of the state.
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Well, the first principle to embrace is work-life balance is a lie.
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The agency will rep Davis in film, TV, branding, business development, publishing, media rights, voiceover, and non-fiction.
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Her short fiction has appeared in Granta and One Story.
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The spectacularly antic tale of originals and doubles, locals and outsiders, visually and philosophically lampoons the very concept of identity.
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Director David Anspaugh, whose resume includes small-town basketball tale Hoosiers and against-all-odds college football biopic Rudy, sticks rigidly to his sporting underdog formula, only skimming the surface of the David-versus-Goliath encounter.
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The Sacramento Bee published several notable stories Friday covering local government, public health and state worker policy.
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Disney+ has handed a pilot order to Aquamarine, based on the 2006 teen fantasy romantic comedy starring Emma Roberts.
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Two years ago, Brown appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show to discuss doing her own stunts on the fantasy-action film Damsel.
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Over the course of the 2030s, the idea of telepathy will go from novel and futuristic to ubiquitous and mundane.
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The screenplay was adapted by Marguerite Roberts and Portis wrote the final scene to give the film a more positive ending than that of the novel, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
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The World's Fair, as it's also known, introduced millions of people to inventions, architecture and ideas that still influence our lives today.
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Basically, Larry went through world history, dumping on every great invention.
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That wasn’t a figment of the imagination.
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Fear is a figment of your imagination.
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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