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
I challenged his movie reviews and caught him in a fib now and again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
“That next part of plan. Pretty soon Warbeak come back. She tell what time squirrel meet you, good. Then Dunwing whisper big lie fib to other Sparra. It soon spread.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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
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
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
To avoid missing a game, Keiller fibbed that she required the procedure earlier to visit her mother.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
“Oh no, we’re not doing anything,” Ratliff fibbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
So, he apparently fibbed to…give the markets a brief pop.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2019
“Just checking the floor for dust,” fibbed Ryan, as he quickly slid Ralph into his parka pocket.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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
"There are a lot of people that may feel this is just a little fibbing and not really a case and I get that," he wrote.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2022
Nan had a stockpile of quotes about lying, but I knew the situation called for more fibbing than usual, at least until I’d worked out what to do next.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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