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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
SkyWater Technology — The semiconductor engineering and fabrication foundry's stock fell more than 7%.
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Christina Cheddar Berk,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
This approach, rather than attaching the boards afterward, simplifies fabrication and keeps the system compact.
—New Atlas, 22 Apr. 2026
Dozens of former employees are now suing their former bosses after they were all abruptly laid off from a metal fabrication plant in western Wisconsin.
—Conor Wight, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
This year’s honorees include founders across a diverse range of businesses, including satellite protection, factory technology, hydrogen storage, AI chip fabrication, the fashion industry, biotechnology and e-scooter production.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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Christina Cheddar Berk,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
This approach, rather than attaching the boards afterward, simplifies fabrication and keeps the system compact.
—New Atlas, 22 Apr. 2026
Dozens of former employees are now suing their former bosses after they were all abruptly laid off from a metal fabrication plant in western Wisconsin.
—Conor Wight, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
This year’s honorees include founders across a diverse range of businesses, including satellite protection, factory technology, hydrogen storage, AI chip fabrication, the fashion industry, biotechnology and e-scooter production.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
Noun
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There's so much to see, from the Painted Desert in the north to the southern half of the drive, where most of the petrified wood lies.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
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The average score Sunday, with preferred lies, was 69.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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Hokum gives you a taste of one tormented scribe’s fiction before introducing you to the man behind the keyboard.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
30 Apr. 2026
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The director’s 2024 fiction project In Her Place also is streaming on Netflix.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2026
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The most obvious answer was that the story, on a deeper level, needed to be timeless, a tale of a desperate person facing moral dilemmas of increasing extremity while trying to hold fast to their values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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The children participated in Disney+'s 2025 documentary Lost in the Jungle, which recounted their tale of survival, per The New York Times.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Made in response to a difficult breakup, the work alludes to two lovers parting ways, but also to Pau’s memories of isolation as a severely asthmatic child in a notoriously polluted city, lying in bed staring at the wall and inventing stories to distract herself from the difficulty of breathing.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Lush, dark wood shelving and the rolling library ladder of every bookish person's dreams complete the fantasy.—
Nathanael Gassett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2026
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Yet this is precisely the idea that the Enhanced Games is peddling—the fantasy that what Proud or Collins takes to break a world record, at a different dose, might make a man in his 70s more mobile, energized, and maybe even hotter.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
30 Apr. 2026
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This may explain why Suzanna’s mother is a somewhat indistinct presence in the novel (at least compared with fierce Sylvie)—patient, even serene behind bars, more eager to talk about her daughter’s future than about her own future, let alone her troubled past.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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That incisive clarity has had an unintended side effect on the novel’s film and TV legacy ever since.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
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Access to the polls has never been adequate across the board, but the relative ease that many people have in participating in politics is a recent invention, based on the VRA.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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In fact, feathers are one of evolution’s cleverest inventions.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
1 May 2026
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Fear is a figment of your imagination.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
26 Apr. 2026
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That description is essentially true; as a puppet designer and puppeteer, his job entails figuring out how to materialize figments of the imagination.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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