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

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 Eliot Gregory

The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together. 

From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend

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 John Bartlett

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 Michael confabulated much longer and more fruitfully.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017

Then it started developing as we confabulated for a week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2017

She listened and heard, and patched it up with Mr. Rashleigh's dinner-table tale, and confabulated with her cousin, and put him up to this last dodge.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming

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

“If he is confabulating, he is wholly confident in his recollection and will stick to his guns. You can’t present anyone confabulating with evidence to the contrary because they believe their own reality.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

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

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

"Voices, I should say, if it were not quite impossible that it could be voices,—very low and hushed, as if a ghost were confabulating with another ghost about a quarter of a mile away."

From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge