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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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The domestic slab industry mainly serves the luxury market while American companies that import and fabricate quartz serve the middle market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Exiled by Astoria to the garage, Hampton fabricates his special drill as the family watches from afar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

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

Some sailor's yarn of a maelstrom in the North Sea comes to his ears, and he fabricates a story of a man who went into the whirlpool.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long

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

The Fort Irwin fighting climaxed with a predawn attack on a fabricated city, Razish, a relic of training for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Police said their safeguards had limited the impact, but that these "do not diminish the seriousness of an AI system presenting fabricated information as though it came from a person with knowledge of a homicide."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

To say my thoughts aloud would be tipping off the audience that the romance has been fabricated to play on their sympathies and that would result in no food at all.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Uber, FedEx and auto insurers have also filed racketeering suits against plaintiff firms and their abettors for allegedly fabricating and exaggerating injuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

During that time, he made a slew of enemies — from mob figures who accused him of fabricating evidence to fellow law enforcement officials who described him as a glory-seeking loose cannon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The former chair of the education faculty has also faced accusations of fabricating or exaggerating elements of his CV.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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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