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
Although the last part was a bit of a fib, I hoped the mention of family would put him in a sensible frame of mind.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
Some of the people seduced by those fibs may not appreciate having been duped.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023
“Dear me!” said the old lady, putting up her glass for another observation of Meg, who tried to look as if she had not heard and been rather shocked at Mrs. Moffat’s fibs.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
“I think he fibbed to me,” he told TMZ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
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
At his death bed, some of the siblings wanted to comfort him, so they fibbed that he’d finally been inducted.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019
Room 5 always told the truth, except when they fibbed a little.
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
The agency accused Musk of fibbing to manipulate his company's stock prices.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
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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