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
Fortunately, I didn't have to fib in my reply.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023
My mom nods, willing to accept the fib, if only to lessen her own worry.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
But when Jeff fibs and says that Helen’s going to be in a new Paul Newman film, eyes light up.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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
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
This advisedly clunky emphasis on fibs and their detection is something of a Johnson trademark.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
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
Abraham Lincoln fibbed as well, telling newspaper readers in 1862 that he was not considering emancipating the Confederacy’s enslaved people when he’d already decided to do so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
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
"It's almost time! The live event will start soon," fibbed a card keeping eager viewers on hold.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2023
To scare them away, Lily fibbed that the wound resulted from a shark fight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
But this evening Matty was not carrying or collecting a message, though he had fibbed and told Ramon so.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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
“She fell down the front steps when we were leaving,” I offered, returning to my natural fibbing habit.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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