prevarications

noun

plural of prevarication
as in lies
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive she knew that his account was a pure prevarication

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  1. lies
  2. tales
  3. stories
Noun
  • These accusations are utter nonsense, concocted from distortions, half-truths and lies.
    — Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Throughout history, pogroms and persecution were fueled by lies that portrayed Jews as less than human.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of lies
Noun
  • If Crystal and Ellis had stayed on that tack — tales about the house at 860 bound together by a sense of its loss — 860 might have the sturdiness of a tearjerker.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • On the surface, his new album Antione’s Son is the same old same old—airy melodies, drug talk, vomiting ad-libs—but punched up by suburban ennui and in-the-weeds romantic tales that makes the music feel refreshingly personal.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of tales
Noun
  • In the 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia, this writer did a number of stories following forecasts by Thomas Miller, a prominent data scientist who’s a professor at Northwestern University.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Yet neither of these stories fits the timing or scale of the decline.
    — J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of stories
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