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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

The fib seemed to play into the media focus on Elliot’s weight, as seen in coverage of her passing and the aftermath.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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

Mercifully, the Gran raised her arms then and the crowd went silent, saving Seven from having to fib and say whatever she got would be a blessing.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

He had fibbed about having previous professional experience and an Equity card, but the production team thought Curry’s talents were reason enough to sponsor him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

"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

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

Now, we won’t be fibbing if we say the bathroom.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson