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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
But these techniques might go a long way towards reducing fabrications and inaccuracies.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Aster is obsessed with people’s unchecked power to shame others online, whether with the truth or with unfair fabrications.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
There’s a lot of variety in fabrications such as chiffon, taffeta, linen, satin face organza and more.
—Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
With 85% of hiring managers catching résumé fabrications and Web3 facing a critical developer shortage, there’s a significant opportunity cost of inaction.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The brothers proved innovative custodians, moving the company upmarket with an insistence on ultrafine materials and groundbreaking fabrications.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Sheer voile and organza fabrications give an airy feel and transparent look to a wide range of silhouettes, CottonWorks stated.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
But even Oberon didn’t know such fabrications ran generations deep.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Because they can be produced in existing fabrications lines with limited additional engineering, they can each be sourced from multiple manufacturers.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Aster is obsessed with people’s unchecked power to shame others online, whether with the truth or with unfair fabrications.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
There’s a lot of variety in fabrications such as chiffon, taffeta, linen, satin face organza and more.
—Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
With 85% of hiring managers catching résumé fabrications and Web3 facing a critical developer shortage, there’s a significant opportunity cost of inaction.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The brothers proved innovative custodians, moving the company upmarket with an insistence on ultrafine materials and groundbreaking fabrications.
—Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Sheer voile and organza fabrications give an airy feel and transparent look to a wide range of silhouettes, CottonWorks stated.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
But even Oberon didn’t know such fabrications ran generations deep.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Because they can be produced in existing fabrications lines with limited additional engineering, they can each be sourced from multiple manufacturers.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrications
Noun
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Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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It is rooted in the dehumanizing language and convenient fictions that precede acts of violence.—
Brad Braxton,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Paranoia-inducing fictions like Wells’s aside, the public came to view Martians not as monsters but as representatives of a higher civilization—as angels, even, at a time when new science was shaking old religious certainties.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Their empires cracked, their shadows receded, and their names faded into cautionary tales.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Season 2 once again explores the consequences of turning fantasies into reality in suburban Britain.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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From cozy, whimsical fantasies to historical fiction and horror, this guide to August’s brightest new releases has something for everyone.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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While some among Democrats cast him as the party’s national leader and a natural choice for their 2028 nominee, conservative critics point to his past controversies, including other pay-for-play stories.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are also exhibits of actual cutting-edge inventions and a high-tech spa room with a silky-soft carpet.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Her childhood was a very creative one, filled with drawing, painting, designing, and tinkering with small inventions.—
Ugonnaora Owoh,
Essence,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Are the protagonist’s past lives real, or just figments of his psychosis?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Modern horror is at the forefront of political movements and are the fables of our time.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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Allusions to myths, fables, and riffs on common idioms abound, many of them evocative and quite funny.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Fabrications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrications. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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