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fabricate

[fab-ri-kayt] / ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪt /




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County’s district attorney and the State Bar after The Times reported last fall that some of its clients said they’d been paid to sue, and, in some cases, fabricate their claims against the county.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

"This nonequilibrium fabrication approach enables us to fabricate materials from alloy vapor to a solid, introducing a significant number of dislocations in CoAl," Zhang said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

That’s most likely to happen not because you’re stupid or greedy, but because you’re vulnerable—and because the con artist knows exactly how to fabricate trustworthiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

AI models “hallucinate,” meaning they routinely fabricate information, without any sign that the answers could be made up.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“If you don’t want to tell me, that’s fine. But don’t fabricate some story out of a misguided desire to pacify or impress me.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, fabricates roughly 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Now his custom-made creations, which he designs and fabricates after work in his garage in Port Chester, N.Y., are featured in those same lowrider magazines.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2024

To print a new material from scratch, one must typically set up to 100 parameters in software that controls how the printer will extrude the material as it fabricates an object.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

But it absolutely drowns out what is important about the art and fabricates it into a spectacle — the very thing Doja Cat is afraid of becoming.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023

The “social grosbeak” fabricates a republic of nests in one clump, and all under one roof.

From Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

Courts should sanction fabricated authorities and abusive litigation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Finally, the scientists used a tiny, specially fabricated oven to evaporate molecules onto the cold crystal, allowing them to settle on the clean surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Geese were always an odd band to pin to anxieties about fabricated culture — if a label had resources and abilities to manufacture stars, why not do it for a 100x-hyperscaling pop act instead?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the safeguards "do not diminish the seriousness of an AI system presenting fabricated information as though it came from a person with knowledge of a homicide," the police statement said.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

No names have been changed, no characters invented, no events fabricated.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Her resignation letter accused district officials of fabricating a grade to “appease an irate parent” whose child had repeatedly failed to turn in an art assignment in Hardcastle’s class at John F. Kennedy Middle School.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Musk also offered Trumpian prose: “Gutless Gibney’s fatal flaw of fabricating a false film.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Singh worked with Jyoti Katoch, an associate professor of physics who specializes in fabricating devices from such materials.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

These include cases in which the men were exonerated through DNA or blood evidence and others in which police are accused of fabricating evidence.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand


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