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
Before her family shows up to meet this mystery man at her birthday party, can Aaliyah find the right one to turn that big fib into reality?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
He didn’t see the harm in a tiny fib if it helped save the owls.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
I also wouldn’t assign her fibs any intention other than self-preservation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
This country tells itself a lot of fibs about how good and great it is — but there are people who don’t just believe them, but devote their lives to making them come true.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025
Dwayne Johnson’s fans smelled that “The Rock” was cooking up fibs, and now the cheat-meal connoisseur is correcting his “first-ever” burger flub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Shelly was sharp when it came to sniffing out fibs, so I just came out and asked her: “Did you ever hear about anything crooked going on with that boat?”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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
Blanche forced Cohen to acknowledge that he fibbed under oath during his own 2018 plea hearing about not feeling pressure to plead guilty.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
“I think he fibbed to me,” he told TMZ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
"It's almost time! The live event will start soon," fibbed a card keeping eager viewers on hold.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2023
But this evening Matty was not carrying or collecting a message, though he had fibbed and told Ramon so.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
It also revealed that I’ve been fibbing to myself: Much as I consider myself enlightened, being unmanly in an era that worships machismo does bug me a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
The agency accused Musk of fibbing to manipulate his company's stock prices.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
I used to be able to tell when she was fibbing, but lately I wasn’t so sure.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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