as in liars
a person who tells lies
a once highly admired journalist whose reputation is now that of a disgraced fabulist
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Recent Examples of fabulists
Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabulists
Noun
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Yes, the Swedes are oddly beautiful, but they are known liars about safety.—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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His storyline becomes a quest for truth within a shelter built on fantasies and populated by liars.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Producers Back Pocket Presents will feature storytellers from the Detroit Free Press, Michigan Public, Outlier Media, WDET-FM and BridgeDetroit, among others.—
Detroit Free Press staff,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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The production team, including Jung, decided to keep San-ho’s fate ambiguous, even for the storytellers themselves.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Fabulists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabulists. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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