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
I challenged his movie reviews and caught him in a fib now and again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
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
But some of the people seduced by those fibs may not appreciate having been duped.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023
Sometimes, they complain of untruths, misleading statements or outright fibs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 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
Her children asked why, and she fibbed: “Oh, because I like the car.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
To scare them away, Lily fibbed that the wound resulted from a shark fight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
“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
They’ve fibbed plenty of times about things they’ve broken, haven’t they?
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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
It also has chapters now in 11 states, but not one here, so sadly there is no annual fibbing award for Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
“Not at all,” she said, but Barry could see she was fibbing.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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