as in to deceive
to make a statement one knows to be untrue
would I lie to you about that?
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as in tale
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
he wanted to deny the accusation, but he couldn't tell a lie
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Recent Examples of lie
Kevin Fixler
may 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 May 2026
Whole trees, uprooted and carried downriver by recent floods, lie sideways in the mud.
—John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026
That would require Jackson’s fans to come to the realization that their childhood was also a lie.
—Marlow Stern, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Calling for the resignation of Howard Lutnick, Kash Patel and others who have lied under oath.
—Kevin Fixler
may 3, Idaho Statesman, 3 May 2026
Whole trees, uprooted and carried downriver by recent floods, lie sideways in the mud.
—John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026
Noun
Inside lies the same in-house manual movement (Caliber DB2115V13) with a six-day power reserve.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026
That would require Jackson’s fans to come to the realization that their childhood was also a lie.
—Marlow Stern, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lie
Noun
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The most obvious answer was that the story, on a deeper level, needed to be timeless, a tale of a desperate person facing moral dilemmas of increasing extremity while trying to hold fast to their values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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The children participated in Disney+'s 2025 documentary Lost in the Jungle, which recounted their tale of survival, per The New York Times.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Made in response to a difficult breakup, the work alludes to two lovers parting ways, but also to Pau’s memories of isolation as a severely asthmatic child in a notoriously polluted city, lying in bed staring at the wall and inventing stories to distract herself from the difficulty of breathing.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Jones has vowed to keep broadcasting through a new company he’s founded and remains an inflammatory and notable figure in the far-right media system after decades of spouting falsehoods and bigotry.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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There are questions being raised, and the best antidote for falsehood is the truth in accuracy.—
Stepheny Price , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Maybe that’s why this new movie — in which billionaires, to paraphrase fellow Fox property Homer Simpson, are the cause of and solution to most of life’s problems — winds up feeling like even more of a fairy tale than the original.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
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Nostalgia for the days of standards and bullet-stopping September issues mixes with handwringing over the state of magazines, media outlets, and the overall environment that sold the original Devil Wears Prada as a fairy tale.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Lie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lie. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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