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as in lies
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 fictions
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 fabrications
Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down.
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Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 14 June 2026
These longer fibers can be spun into finer, smoother and more durable yarns, securing Egyptian cotton’s place in high-end shirting, bedding, and premium fabrications.
—Kaja Grujic, Vogue, 4 June 2026
The 37-year-old former Republican congressman from New York ran for office telling a series of lies and fabrications about his personal life.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 2 June 2026
One potential way of combating such AI fabrications is with AI.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
The report also considers which shades best complement the drapey, lightweight fabrications gaining traction in the market.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2026
But Morganroth’s previous stops in at least four states and numerous publications were also marked by falsehoods and fabrications about her background, The Denver Post found.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
As models have grown more complex, some hallucinate with more persuasive fabrications.
—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Last year, Deloitte produced two reports for government clients in Australia and Canada that were both found to be riddled with fabrications.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 14 June 2026
These longer fibers can be spun into finer, smoother and more durable yarns, securing Egyptian cotton’s place in high-end shirting, bedding, and premium fabrications.
—Kaja Grujic, Vogue, 4 June 2026
The 37-year-old former Republican congressman from New York ran for office telling a series of lies and fabrications about his personal life.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 2 June 2026
One potential way of combating such AI fabrications is with AI.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
The report also considers which shades best complement the drapey, lightweight fabrications gaining traction in the market.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2026
But Morganroth’s previous stops in at least four states and numerous publications were also marked by falsehoods and fabrications about her background, The Denver Post found.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
As models have grown more complex, some hallucinate with more persuasive fabrications.
—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Last year, Deloitte produced two reports for government clients in Australia and Canada that were both found to be riddled with fabrications.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrications
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However, what seemed like the perfect life was really a complex house of cards built on lies and insanity.—
David Hookstead OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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For his potential successor, Republicans are left to choose between an outright election denier, Vernon Jones, and a state lawmaker, Tim Fleming, who avoids explicitly disputing the president’s 2020 election lies.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.—
Ivan Kreilkamp,
JSTOR Daily,
10 June 2026
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy, the perpetrators and perpetuators of those myths, had seen to it that the only textbooks allowed in Southern schools would peddle those fictions.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 May 2026
Noun
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The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales.—
Scarlett Harris,
Time,
11 June 2026
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Set in Mexico in the late 1800s, the story centers on Francisca, a gifted writer of dark tales and fantastical characters.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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These fantasies can all skew toward exclusionary extremism on the left and the right.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
3 June 2026
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In those pages, Fiedler dared to argue that many of America’s boyish and putatively innocent classics are in fact fantasies of interracial, homosexual romance.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
10 Dec. 2025
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The streamer, owned by Reliance Industries and backed by Disney, will introduce regional-first formats, and new stories and creative voices, while develoing writing labs, mentorship programs and skill-building workshops.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
9 Dec. 2025
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As for Greiner, she became known in the business world after patenting a plastic jewelry organizer, the first of many inventions in her portfolio that would be wildly successful.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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These new inventions made workers more productive and improved the lives of everyone.—
Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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The novel has a freewheeling spirit that recalls Italo Calvino’s space fables in Cosmicomics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The Syfy-channel TV show Channel Zero uses some of the best known of these fables as fodder for serialized storytelling.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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“Fabrications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrications. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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