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
Before her family shows up to meet this mystery man at her birthday party, can Aaliyah find the right one to turn that big fib into reality?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
I do not want to fib, especially in church.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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
This advisedly clunky emphasis on fibs and their detection is something of a Johnson trademark.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 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
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
“I think he fibbed to me,” he told TMZ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 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
“Just checking the floor for dust,” fibbed Ryan, as he quickly slid Ralph into his parka pocket.
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
But for someone who is already elected, Redfield said getting caught fibbing isn’t a clear-cut end.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
But since seeing the dead, Ophie had been lying a lot more often, and it was starting to get so that the truth was so unbelievable that fibbing seemed more honest in a way.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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