confabulate
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“We know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,” McCoy says.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Or rather a group of clusters, so placed that a dozen or more housewives could stand at their respective doors, very nearly facing one another, and confabulate without greatly raising their voices.
From A Traveller in Little Things by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no; ’Tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse—at least in fable.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
"Mistah Travis," began Mr. Scott deferentially, clearing his throat, "would you-all be good enough to jine our little gatherin' while we confabulate on dis hyar recent contabulaneous incident?"
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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