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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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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
Book, of the Homeless Trust, flatly rejected suggestions that the hostel was a security concern, calling them a political fabrication.
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 June 2025
The bill, which passed out of the Senate unanimously, would instruct the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt training programs for best practices for stone fabrication workers and develop a certification process with safety and training standards.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 9 June 2025
Moving the fabrication of the Tensor mobile chipset from Samsung to TSMC is one of those calls, but the risk is balanced out by at least one key component staying with Samsung.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
In a way, advanced packaging keeps afloat Moore’s Law, the idea that the number of transistors on microchips would double every two years, as breakthroughs in the chip fabrication process become increasingly costly and more difficult.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 June 2025
The bill, which passed out of the Senate unanimously, would instruct the Department of Industrial Relations to adopt training programs for best practices for stone fabrication workers and develop a certification process with safety and training standards.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 9 June 2025
Moving the fabrication of the Tensor mobile chipset from Samsung to TSMC is one of those calls, but the risk is balanced out by at least one key component staying with Samsung.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
In a way, advanced packaging keeps afloat Moore’s Law, the idea that the number of transistors on microchips would double every two years, as breakthroughs in the chip fabrication process become increasingly costly and more difficult.
—Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
Noun
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Power shields its misdeeds with propaganda, but Panh sees such murderous lies clearly, giving them an honest staging, thick with echoes.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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The lie corporate America has told for too long is that culture is soft.—
Greg Dolan,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Megan Abbott is my favorite suspense/crime fiction writer working today.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Unique blend of literary and historical fiction as well as a penetrating exploration of philosophy, art, historical responsibility and guilt in the context of war.—
Book Marks
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Where Bailey lands is probably going to tell the tale of his career.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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The page lists half a dozen directorial projects Ford is attached to, including ferry disaster tragedy Wahine out of New Zealand, fantasy tale The King of Light – The Order of the Dark Gods, and comedy Food Fight.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
Noun
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In the box office smash, the talented singer and actress portrays Elphaba, the green witch from the famed Wizard of Oz story.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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However, Walters' incredible career is only part of her story.—
Sean Keane,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
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And maybe the next Kerouac will write a novel on their laptop as an autonomous car carries them across the continent.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
22 June 2025
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In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane novel Audition, recently released in the United States, space is both the dystopian place where humanity’s worst impulses flourish and a site of uncharted possibility where humans can become something entirely new.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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The Old Guard 2 — a sequel to the Charlize Theron fantasy superhero hit from 2020 — arrives on Netflix this week.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Set in a fantasy version of early 1900s Japan, the series focuses on the adventures Tanjiro Kamado, an ordinary boy whose peaceful life in the mountains is disrupted when demons murder his family.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
28 June 2025
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The invention of railway travel also necessitated the establishment of a unified time zone, which was provided by the Royal Observatory and adopted by the railway companies.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
22 June 2025
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While potentially useful across varying regions, the invention may prove especially helpful in dense, humid areas.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
18 June 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 5 Jul. 2025.
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