fib
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"Perhaps the starkest," Dr Rogers said, were her attempts to explain the cancer fib.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
If someone were to ask me how I kept my sanity this past year, I would first probably fib and come up with something literary.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024
Rae’s pretext for the connection: Piano music helps her work, and Yoori was recommended by someone who overheard her practicing at the music school, a fib that the sweet but self-effacing Yoori hardly believes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
During an interview last Thursday with CNN's Christian Amanpour, the former president told a big fib, or what could more generously be described as a white lie.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023
No reporter ever cottoned on to her fib, but the newspaper coverage rattled her.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
After an overconfident miller fibs that his daughter can spin straw into gold, a greedy king locks the poor girl in a room full of straw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Her living voice — her wit and insecurities, her vanities and fibs, the whole of her mind as she herself came to know it.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
White lies are the social fibs we all use to smooth the rough edges of life.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
“Dear me!” said the old lady, putting up her glass for another observation of Meg, who tried to look as if she had not heard and been rather shocked at Mrs. Moffat’s fibs.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
She also bemoaned Wamsley’s “general lack of reliability” on “issues related to the protests,” which is a polite way of saying she fibbed her face off.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
Her children asked why, and she fibbed: “Oh, because I like the car.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
To scare them away, Lily fibbed that the wound resulted from a shark fight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
“Oh no, we’re not doing anything,” Ratliff fibbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
"Crow and Otis are still slopping soup," Turtle fibbed.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
Some people say they've resorted to fibbing about illnesses, emigration or even prison sentences so the company will stop trying to keep them signed up.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Stunned by her blatant fibbing, I backed off.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
By the way, they also confess to occasionally fibbing about “overqualificiations” to spare job applicants’ egos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The agency accused Musk of fibbing to manipulate his company's stock prices.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
It’s a kind of subconscious, schizophrenic fibbing, if you ask me, and if those parents don’t have guilt complexes, I don’t know who has.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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