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
When Letterman asked if she was telling a little fib, she coyly replied, “yes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The fib was an easy one to tell.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
The "fibs" Malone finds in Minhaj's comedy were not part of a show designed to inform the public.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
White lies are the social fibs we all use to smooth the rough edges of life.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
The only difference between her fibs and mine are that hers are eerie—she’s got a gift for saying things that make you anxious.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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
“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
"Crow and Otis are still slopping soup," Turtle fibbed.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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
It was obvious to Roy that Beatrice was experienced at fibbing to grownups.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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