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as in producing
to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials
with a few inexpensive materials from a craft shop, we were able to fabricate our own holiday wreath
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as in devising
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
fabricated a daring plan to create an underground explosion that would take the enemy totally by surprise
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as in constructing
to form by putting together parts or materials
the house was essentially fabricated at the factory and then shipped to the site for assembly
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as in lying
to make a statement one knows to be untrue
since he didn't have a good excuse for not having done his homework, he would have to fabricate one
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Recent Examples of fabricating
Jimenez is facing one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and Wright and Villarreal are each facing one count of possession of marijuana.
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Doug Myers, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
Lee, 31, was arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Thursday and charged with first-degree murder and tampering with or fabricating evidence, according to online records.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
By 2012, Violette was burnt out from his punishing exhibition schedule, feeling the physical effects of his insistence on fabricating his works almost entirely by hand, and back on heroin.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Last Friday, Yoon received a five-year prison term at the Seoul court for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation and denying some Cabinet members their rights to deliberate on his martial law decree.
—CNN Money, 22 Jan. 2026
In Friday’s case, the Seoul court sentenced Yoon for defying attempts to detain him and fabricating the martial law proclamation.
—Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
The works, crafted to near perfection by the Denver fabricating firm Elmendorf Geurts, are flashy pieces that turn up the volume of the Civic Center area.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
The governor also went after the White House on social media, posting to X Wednesday night that the Administration is fabricating how the Minneapolis shooting played out and that the ICE agent who fired the deadly shots was not acting in self-defense.
—Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Jeremiah faces a second-degree felony manslaughter charge, while Landrey is charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, a third-degree felony charge, jail records show.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
Doug Myers, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
Lee, 31, was arrested by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Thursday and charged with first-degree murder and tampering with or fabricating evidence, according to online records.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
By 2012, Violette was burnt out from his punishing exhibition schedule, feeling the physical effects of his insistence on fabricating his works almost entirely by hand, and back on heroin.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Last Friday, Yoon received a five-year prison term at the Seoul court for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation and denying some Cabinet members their rights to deliberate on his martial law decree.
—CNN Money, 22 Jan. 2026
In Friday’s case, the Seoul court sentenced Yoon for defying attempts to detain him and fabricating the martial law proclamation.
—Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
The works, crafted to near perfection by the Denver fabricating firm Elmendorf Geurts, are flashy pieces that turn up the volume of the Civic Center area.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
The governor also went after the White House on social media, posting to X Wednesday night that the Administration is fabricating how the Minneapolis shooting played out and that the ICE agent who fired the deadly shots was not acting in self-defense.
—Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
Jeremiah faces a second-degree felony manslaughter charge, while Landrey is charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, a third-degree felony charge, jail records show.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fabricating
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Notaro was also the person who first brought this idea to director Ryan White and his producing partner, Jessica Hargrave (Good Night Oppy).—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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With just a few supplies and some elbow grease, your ice maker will be back to producing fresh, clean ice in no time.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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And commissioners spent all that time devising the College Sports Commission in an attempt to stabilize the NIL/portal market, then sit back and let one school in their conference steal yet another star QB half an hour before the portal closes.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The 40-year-old cooks up ways to make quarterbacks miserable in his sleep, devising schemes that are meant to lure as much as they are intended to confuse.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Risk is one of the most consequential currencies in geopolitics, and Washington has spent years constructing an elaborate risk architecture around China.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2026
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Bonds are used to fund brick-and-mortar projects, which include constructing, equipping, maintaining and furnishing district facilities.—
Kendrick Calfee
February 11,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2026
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Greenson breaks into Monroe's bedroom and finds the 36-year-old movie star lying naked, lifeless, face down on her bed, still clutching the telephone receiver.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Feb. 2026
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The poignant image is juxtaposed with flashbacks of them as children lying sweetly next to one another.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Rather than making a dispassionate case against the idea that the country was founded to enslave Africans, MAGA is taking down plaques commemorating basic facts, such as Washington’s slaveholding.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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This week, a 51-year-old woman was sentenced to federal prison for making far-out and ultimately weightless accusations – that her former spouse had illegally accessed her bank account as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station in the summer of 2019.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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The reality is that the AI is concocting elaborate personas, faking as though humans are writing about human woes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Both activities can be fairly ordinary hobbies—games of imagination not so different from crushing on a pop star or concocting stories about a film protagonist.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2026
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The show requires extensive script changes and dress rehearsals ahead of the taping in the evening, and contestants are building out their acts throughout the week.—
Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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What is the process for designing and building a hotel lobby?—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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To speed up the shift, Musk said last month Tesla is ending production of two car models at its California factory to make room for manufacturing its Optimus humanoid robots.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
9 Feb. 2026
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If growth accelerates as Slok anticipates—driven by data center construction, a manufacturing renaissance, and fiscal stimulus—inflationary pressures could force the central bank to tighten monetary policy rather than loosen it.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Fabricating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fabricating. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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