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as in lies
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 fictions
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 fabrications
The designer leaned into his formidable cutting skills and theatrical bent, designing with high-tech fabrications that interact with smartphones, with foam-like materials, and experimenting in garment reconfiguration.
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Miles Socha, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
See You Tomorrow’s initial launch collection in new fabrications, as well as introducing a bridal collection and Formula 1 line.
—Layla Ilchi, WWD, 6 Dec. 2024
To be sure, this report, written under the guise of international law and human rights, is utterly baseless, replete with malicious lies and gross distortions of fact, as well as wholesale fabrications of law.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
As these hyper-realistic digital fabrications become more sophisticated, scammers are using the world’s richest man (Musk) as their favorite deepfake, according to reports by AI firm Sensity.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
However, these fabrications begin to crumble when he is forced to take a job as a messenger at the very company where his son serves as vice president.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Prosecutors also argued that the allegations of abuse against Jose Menendez, an executive at RCA Records, were fabrications.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After Probe On-Set Accusations Finch also came forward with claims of harassment by an unnamed director on the set of Vampire Diaries in a 2018 Hollywood Reporter article, which was later removed from the site due to Finch’s fabrications, according to an editor’s note.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Kiefer actually broke the story about Disney opening an investigation into Finch’s fabrications six weeks before Peretz’s story hit newsstands.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Miles Socha, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
See You Tomorrow’s initial launch collection in new fabrications, as well as introducing a bridal collection and Formula 1 line.
—Layla Ilchi, WWD, 6 Dec. 2024
To be sure, this report, written under the guise of international law and human rights, is utterly baseless, replete with malicious lies and gross distortions of fact, as well as wholesale fabrications of law.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
As these hyper-realistic digital fabrications become more sophisticated, scammers are using the world’s richest man (Musk) as their favorite deepfake, according to reports by AI firm Sensity.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
However, these fabrications begin to crumble when he is forced to take a job as a messenger at the very company where his son serves as vice president.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Prosecutors also argued that the allegations of abuse against Jose Menendez, an executive at RCA Records, were fabrications.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After Probe On-Set Accusations Finch also came forward with claims of harassment by an unnamed director on the set of Vampire Diaries in a 2018 Hollywood Reporter article, which was later removed from the site due to Finch’s fabrications, according to an editor’s note.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Kiefer actually broke the story about Disney opening an investigation into Finch’s fabrications six weeks before Peretz’s story hit newsstands.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabrications
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To uncover the truth about a pernicious insurance industry practice, staffers with the New York’s state attorney general’s office decided to tell a series of lies.Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
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Secrets and lies were the name of the game on Grey's Anatomy.Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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The project is heavy on woozy tales of the erotic ups and emotional downs of falling hard, and the deadpan, adrift flows of Scoob and friends, like professional skirt-chaser Shaudy Kash, are like bumping Baby Smoove and Veeze with brain fog.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 9 Dec. 2024
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But do not look for tales of her in the old songs.Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
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That means not just naming your values and putting them in a frame on the boardroom wall, but also making a real effort to create and share stories that speak to those values.Samantha Reynolds, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are returning after 22 years to make 28 Years Later, though the original film, 28 Days Later, has remained one of cinema’s weirdest modern days stories.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Rather than seeing complex traits as entirely new inventions, this research suggests that evolution often recycles and repurposes existing genetic tools to build complexity on the foundation of simplicity.Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Each version is 10 times more powerful than its predecessor, unlike versions of other inventions with minimal upgrades.Kumar Parakala, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Fabrications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabrications. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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