confabulate
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“We know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,” McCoy says.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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"Mistah Travis," began Mr. Scott deferentially, clearing his throat, "would you-all be good enough to jine our little gatherin' while we confabulate on dis hyar recent contabulaneous incident?"
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
The forest is their citadel, where, mounted on lofty trees waving in the breeze, they confabulate, and, as naturalists have often described, arm themselves with sticks and stones, and in conscious independence defy all intruders.
From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous
If I must confabulate with gentlemen of your kidney, I prefer to keep it dark.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph
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