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
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
From Worldly Ways and Byways by Gregory, Eliot
Nor are their wanting outbreaks of genuine passion among the utmost extravagances of false sentiment—when momentarily heroes and heroines warm into men and women, and for a few sentences confabulate like flesh and blood.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing confabulate
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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