confabulate

“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

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

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

"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

Shawn Oakley has shown that it is easy to induce ChatGPT to create misinformation and even report confabulated studies on a wide range of topics, from medicine to politics to religion.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2022

Hecht’s gift for confabulated anecdote suggests one reason that he became so successful as a Hollywood entertainer.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

Then it started developing as we confabulated for a week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017

Then Michael confabulated much longer and more fruitfully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017

The farmer’s wife appeared at the door, looked at the traveller, then retiring with her husband, the two confabulated a little apart, and finally they invited Stephenson into the cottage. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel

He said Dr A and Dr B were "confabulating" events to target him and that Dr B was an unreliable witness due to a previous traumatic experience.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Dr. Ahmed has not personally assessed Mr. Biden but said, in his view, the evidence is “overwhelming” that Mr. Biden is confabulating.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

“Without examining him, I’d say it’s likely that he’s confabulating because he’s not telling the story for any personal gain. Confabulators don’t tell stories for personal gain,” Ms. Dodson said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

The personnel dressed in white jackets the next morning were busy confabulating and joking with one another while cheesy loud music was playing in the background.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

In others two young men were confabulating quietly but with a most dissipated air, heads together over a brace of glasses.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William