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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
Crane offered a similar read, describing the collection as both new and familiar — the kind of pieces that could believably have been thrifted from a Venice Beach shop, even as fabrications like Terry and slub cotton give them a softer, more contemporary hand.
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Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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.
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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.
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Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
2 June 2026
One potential way of combating such AI fabrications is with AI.
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Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
30 May 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.
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Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
As models have grown more complex, some hallucinate with more persuasive fabrications.
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Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Lace and embroidered fabrications give a naked dress a light layer of romance without weighing the look down.
—
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrications
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Finally, reality itself has a way of fighting back against lies and propaganda.
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Seems like far too many appreciate this type of corruption, and making money on SM for lies, is precisely that.
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Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
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The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
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By Christopher Arnott Even tales as old as time need to get told a different way every once in a while.
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Everything else in these tales of Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister can be a bit over-amped and over-stylized.
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For this dourest of doubters, Musk’s claims for the feats ahead can only happen in the SpaceX founder’s head, or in the sci-fi fantasies Eisman grew up on.
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Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
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The history of Kaskaskia is full of stories of resilience and stubborn pride, but also of the inevitability of nature.
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Six years before Karl Benz’s first car and almost two decades prior to Henry Ford’s initial inventions, George Selden filed the first patent for a road engine, in 1879.
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The possibility of what could be different has powered many of its inventions and helped define its national identity.
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Explore the Wild West from the back of a rickety wagon as characters share famed fables about Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, Pecos Bill, John Henry and Hekeke.
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My dad’s stories about his grade-school experience felt like dark fables, peppered with slurs hurled at him by classmates.
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“Fabrications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrications. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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