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as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication
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as in fiction
something that is the product of the imagination
the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers
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Recent Examples of fabrication
Claim: Image shows headline from The Atlantic about how Harris 'may need to steal an election'
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The image is a fabrication.
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Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The fabrications pose particular risks in health care settings.
—Benj Edwards, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
With lower capital expenditures on the horizon after its new fabrication facilities are complete, these should bring down its cost of goods sold, supporting its free cash flow, net income, and EBITDA.
—Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Mid-casts, retro hues and clean wash-downs are key, while fabrics span structured rigid fabrications, loose, fluid Tencel blends, and jacquards with retro prints and plaids.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The fabrications pose particular risks in health care settings.
—Benj Edwards, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
With lower capital expenditures on the horizon after its new fabrication facilities are complete, these should bring down its cost of goods sold, supporting its free cash flow, net income, and EBITDA.
—Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Mid-casts, retro hues and clean wash-downs are key, while fabrics span structured rigid fabrications, loose, fluid Tencel blends, and jacquards with retro prints and plaids.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrication
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And while their relationship is a little cozier these days, the former president had threatened to throw Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg in jail as part of Trump’s lies about election fraud.William Gavin, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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So for the last few years, the vote-fraud hucksters have focused on a different lie: That undocumented immigrants (brought into the country by Democrats) are voting illegally.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Mann published no fiction for the duration of the war.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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That is to say, fiction should, to my mind, slightly eclipse the author’s own understanding of it.Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Co-created by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, Landman is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs.Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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What election narratives are foreign actors pushing? Expect false tales of voters tampering with mail-in ballots, non-citizens casting ballots and hacks of election infrastructure in social media posts.Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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This story originally published on businessden.com.Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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Her novels have sold well and been named to best-of lists, all while including several Latino characters.Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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But how did novels like Liu’s overcome the disreputable status of pulp fiction and gain an international reputation as serious literature?H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024
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An old-school World War II drama, a quietly powerful Irish drama, a Christmas story and a fantasy anime arrive in movie theaters this week.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The first trailer for the fantasy adventure feature soon had audiences questioning whether or not AI was used in production.Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, the new invention is stable in water and can withstand temperatures of up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (850 degrees Celsius).Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Those matches essentially establish a direct link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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And even her closest confidantes reveal themselves as figments of her imagination at the most vulnerable possible moments.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
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An imaginary friend is one thing for a child and quite another for a 38-year-old man who drinks excessively with this figment every night.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Fabrication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrication. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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