to fabricate
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7.3
- verb
- /ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt/
:
inventar
- Is it possible that you are fabricating a lot of this?
- fabricated evidence
- fabricated data
- fabricated charges
And how hard is it for, for that data to be fabricated, manipulated?
- And how hard is it for, for that data to be fabricated, manipulated?
- Is it possible that you are fabricating a lot of this?
- The authors of this paper were, of course, not the only ones to fabricate predictions for the LHC.
- What do you think makes somebody make up lies and fabricate stories?
- If it doesn't ring true, then they are probably just twisting the words or fabricating them entirely.
- But keep in mind, keep in mind, the photos we see are cultivated photos, not fabricated, but cultivated.
- And if they are given, or if they fabricate another such crisis, they will play the same card.
- Because a lot of people outside the folks who suggest that the the lizards who run the world have completely fabricated invented COVID.
- If you stepped forward and said, I heard two police officers, you know, in a room writing their notes up and fabricating their evidence.
- These testimonies came out to be untrue, false, fabricated because they were promoted by rescue groups in Israel.
- And I pretty much told the psychologist at the time that I sometimes fabricate a really disastrous outcome to motivate myself in the short term.
- It's this mishmash of fact, fiction, smear and fabricating a lie.
- It's such an interesting thing that we have this like record of, of people and events, but I wonder how much of it is just like fabricated overtime.
Examples
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Our job is to report the news, not fabricate it.
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They launched an investigation and uncovered what US authorities now allege was a month long scheme to fabricate user data.
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Or did my father fabricate most of the evidence?
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What do you think makes somebody make up lies and fabricate stories?
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You were caught fabricating stories.
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And then years later, we found out that some of the details in that story were fabricated that Alex Haley wrote.
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Clint, you fabricated a scandal.
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She died pursuing a lie that we fabricated.
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Years later, the guilt-ridden nanny wrote to Piaget's parents and confessed to fabricating the whole incident (including the scratches).
Academic text (2011) -
Our job is to report the news, not fabricate it.
Synonyms
972
3.2
Invent a story or excuse that is not true
195
4.2
To make or change something to trick people
181
3.2
To make up a story or excuse that is not true
71
6.9
Give a false story about someone or something to trick people
66
7.1
To make a fake copy of a document or signature to deceive people
62
6.3
To invent a story, excuse or piece of evidence to deceive people
46
6.0
Make up a story or excuse to trick people
44
7.3
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
37
5.6
Invent a story or excuse to trick people
11
7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
10
7.7
To change something to hide the truth
Change facts on purpose to make something seem better
To make up a false reason to avoid blame
To trick or cheat someone by lying
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fabricate also means to invent something false and this sense comes from the same root fabricare 'to make' and fabric 'cloth'; a helpful way to remember it is to think of a story being 'made up'. So, to fabricate a story is to 'make' a lie, just like making an object but with words.