prevaricated

verb

past tense of prevaricate
as in lied
to make a statement one knows to be untrue during the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend

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  • The actress alleged that her mother had taken control of her finances and lied about how much she was being paid for a film and pocketed the difference.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Quiñones’ unit led a separate effort to find additional cases by reviewing whether people who’d recently become citizens had voted before they were naturalized, then lied about it in naturalization interviews.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026
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