PREVARICATED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

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 film follows the creation of OpenAI; the man who made the technology, Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov); and how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield) lied his way into leading the world’s most dangerous technology.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
The stars lied about their romance in press interviews for decades afterward.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

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