as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales?
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Recent Examples of fairy tale
Yet some corners of the fandom were also set against her from the beginning, given that a young actress of Colombian and Polish descent was cast as the traditionally white fairy tale character.
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
Her natural fairy tale princess energy elevates a fairly ordinary modernized retelling into something more.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
So far, the fairy tale adaptation has amassed $81.9 million domestically and $181 million globally to stand as the lowest-grossing (by far) of Disney’s live-action remakes.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Apr. 2025
My grass was a bright shade of fairy tale green, the trees were budding and my tulips had bloomed.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
Her natural fairy tale princess energy elevates a fairly ordinary modernized retelling into something more.
—Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
So far, the fairy tale adaptation has amassed $81.9 million domestically and $181 million globally to stand as the lowest-grossing (by far) of Disney’s live-action remakes.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Apr. 2025
My grass was a bright shade of fairy tale green, the trees were budding and my tulips had bloomed.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fairy tale
Noun
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In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.—
Domenico Starnone,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Then, after young mothers and children who had just arrived shared their stories, the Holy Father returned to the sister who had been mentioned before.—
Mireya Villarreal,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Fairy tale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairy%20tale. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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