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
He wasn’t aware at the time, but the daughter had gone next door and called 911 to say someone had been stabbed — a fib that she later retracted, White said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
No reporter ever cottoned on to her fib, but the newspaper coverage rattled her.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The agency accused Musk of fibbing to manipulate his company's stock prices.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
“And anyway, I don’t care what you say. I think it’s true what she told me about the elephant. She’s not fibbing, she’s not making it up, I know she isn’t. I can tell.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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